What is the maximal age a Silver-haired bat reaches?
An adult Silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans) usually gets as old as 12 years.
Silver-haired bats are around 53 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 4.1 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Lasionycteris), a Silver-haired bat caries out around 1 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.47 meter (4′ 11″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans) is a solitary migratory species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae and the only member of the genus Lasionycteris.
Animals of the same family as a Silver-haired bat
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Vespertilionidae):
- Lesser mouse-eared bat becoming 19.75 years old
- Cadorna’s pipistrelle bringing the scale to 6 grams
- Kenyan wattled bat bringing the scale to 7 grams
- Greater noctule bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Java pipistrelle with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Brown pipistrelle bringing the scale to 6 grams
- Yellow serotine bringing the scale to 10 grams
- Birdlike noctule with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Welwitsch’s bat bringing the scale to 15 grams
- Szechwan myotis bringing the scale to 11 grams
Animals that reach the same age as Silver-haired bat
With an average age of 12 years, Silver-haired bat are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Malabar large-spotted civet usually reaching 14 years
- Salt’s dik-dik usually reaching 14 years
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat usually reaching 10 years
- Raccoon dog usually reaching 14 years
- Ground cuscus usually reaching 12 years
- Crab-eating raccoon usually reaching 14 years
- Mountain nyala usually reaching 11 years
- Hispaniolan solenodon usually reaching 11.33 years
- Banded palm civet usually reaching 12 years
- Small Indian civet usually reaching 10.5 years
Animals with the same number of babies Silver-haired bat
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Common tsessebe
- Lar gibbon
- Six-banded armadillo
- Serotine bat
- Tibetan antelope
- Ring-tailed vontsira
- Dassie rat
- La Plata dolphin
- Indian hare
- Northern fur seal
Weighting as much as Silver-haired bat
A fully grown Silver-haired bat reaches around 11 grams (0.02 lbs). So do these animals:
- Tailed tailless bat with 10 grams
- Nyctophilus corbeni with 11 grams
- Common bent-wing bat with 11 grams
- Kellen’s dormouse with 10 grams
- Dwarf bonneted bat with 12 grams
- Greater long-tailed hamster with 13 grams
- Thomas’s small-eared shrew with 12 grams
- Chestnut sac-winged bat with 9 grams
- Southern yellow bat with 12 grams
- Cape horseshoe bat with 12 grams