How many baby Whiskered bats are in a litter?
A Whiskered bat (Myotis mystacinus) 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 8 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 2.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Myotis). An adult Whiskered bat grows up to a size of 5.1 meter (16′ 9″).
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 whiskered bat (Myotis mystacinus) and related species, are small European bats with long fur. Although uncommon, M. mystacinus is often found around human habitation and around water; it is similar to Brandt’s bat Myotis brandtii, from which it was distinguished as a separate species only in 1970.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Whiskered bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Fringed myotis becoming 18.25 years old
- Greater bamboo bat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Cadorna’s pipistrelle weighting only 6 grams
- Large-eared pied bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern broad-nosed bat weighting only 8 grams
- Rufous mouse-eared bat weighting only 7 grams
- Black myotis becoming 3.5 years old
- Asian particolored bat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Curacao myotis weighting only 3 grams
- Little broad-nosed bat weighting only 10 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Whiskered bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Hamadryas baboon
- Bighorn sheep
- Cape horseshoe bat
- Intermediate long-fingered bat
- Delacour’s langur
- Thumbless bat
- Seychelles fruit bat
- Rothschild’s woolly rat
- Spix’s night monkey
- Koala
Animals that get as old as a Whiskered bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 9.25 years:
- Southern tamandua with 9 years
- Black duiker with 10.17 years
- Small Indian civet with 10.5 years
- Muskrat with 10 years
- Bengal fox with 10 years
- Chacoan peccary with 9 years
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with 10.08 years
- Eastern cottontail with 9 years
- Barbary ground squirrel with 9 years
- Marbled polecat with 8.92 years
Animals with the same weight as a Whiskered bat
What other animals weight around 3 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Volcano shrew weighting 3 grams
- Arabian pipistrelle weighting 3 grams
- Whitehead’s woolly bat weighting 3 grams
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat weighting 3 grams
- Banana pipistrelle weighting 3 grams
- Bottego’s shrew weighting 3 grams
- Pygmy shrew tenrec weighting 3 grams
- Frosted sac-winged bat weighting 3 grams
- Spurrell’s woolly bat weighting 3 grams
- Arabian pipistrelle weighting 3 grams