How many baby Wall-roosting mouse-eared bats are in a litter?
A Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat (Myotis muricola) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Myotis). An adult Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat grows up to a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″).
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.
The wall-roosting mouse-eared bat, or Nepalese whiskered myotis (Myotis muricola) is a species of vesper bat whose type locality is Nepal.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Southern yellow bat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Eptesicus demissus weighting only 13 grams
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater Papuan pipistrelle weighting only 6 grams
- Nut-colored yellow bat weighting only 30 grams
- Tiny pipistrelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Curacao myotis weighting only 3 grams
- Large-footed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dark-winged lesser house bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Coppery titi
- Golden bamboo lemur
- African savanna hare
- Harp seal
- Long-finned pilot whale
- African pygmy squirrel
- Red-eared guenon
- Northern plains gray langur
- Rio Mayo titi
- Brazilian brown bat
Animals with the same weight as a Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat
What other animals weight around 4 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Light-winged lesser house bat weighting 4 grams
- Saussure’s shrew weighting 4 grams
- Brown tube-nosed bat weighting 4 grams
- Ridley’s bat weighting 4 grams
- Groove-toothed bat weighting 4 grams
- Common thick-thumbed bat weighting 4 grams
- Hardwicke’s woolly bat weighting 4 grams
- Pygmy long-eared bat weighting 4 grams
- Lesser bamboo bat weighting 4 grams
- Rusty pipistrelle weighting 4 grams