How many baby Wagner’s bonneted bats are in a litter?
A Wagner’s bonneted bat (Eumops glaucinus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Molossidae family (genus: Eumops). An adult Wagner’s bonneted bat grows up to a size of 2.7 meter (8′ 11″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
Wagner’s bonneted bat or Wagner’s mastiff bat (Eumops glaucinus), is a species of bat in the family Molossidae. It is found in the Americas from Argentina and Peru north to Mexico, and Cuba. Populations in Florida in the United States are now recognized as the Florida bonneted bat (E. floridanus.)
Other animals of the family Molossidae
Wagner’s bonneted bat is a member of the Molossidae, as are these animals:
- Big bonneted bat weighting only 83 grams
- Lappet-eared free-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nigerian free-tailed bat weighting only 20 grams
- Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat weighting only 21 grams
- Angolan free-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat weighting only 21 grams
- Russet free-tailed bat weighting only 16 grams
- New Guinea free-tailed bat weighting only 26 grams
- Brown mastiff bat weighting only 15 grams
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat weighting only 15 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Wagner’s bonneted bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Subalpine woolly rat
- Jentink’s duiker
- Mediterranean horseshoe bat
- Red-necked pademelon
- Nubian ibex
- Brown long-eared bat
- European bison
- Soemmerring’s gazelle
- Mongolian gazelle
- Tana River red colobus
Animals with the same weight as a Wagner’s bonneted bat
What other animals weight around 36 grams (0.08 lbs)?
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec weighting 37 grams
- Hazel dormouse weighting 29 grams
- Chihuahuan mouse weighting 40 grams
- Plateau mouse weighting 40 grams
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat weighting 36 grams
- Four-toed rice tenrec weighting 35 grams
- Handley’s slender opossum weighting 30 grams
- Northern mole vole weighting 40 grams
- Olrog’s chaco mouse weighting 32 grams
- Greater false vampire bat weighting 39 grams