How many baby Orange leaf-nosed bats are in a litter?
A Orange leaf-nosed bat (Rhinonicteris aurantia) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 148 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Rhinolophidae family (genus: Rhinonicteris). An adult Orange leaf-nosed bat grows up to a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″).
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 orange leaf-nosed bat (Rhinonicteris aurantia) is a bat in the family Hipposideridae. It is the only living species in the genus Rhinonicteris which is endemic to Australia, occurring in the far north and north-west of the continent. They roost in caves, eat moths, and are sensitive to human intrusion.
Other animals of the family Rhinolophidae
Orange leaf-nosed bat is a member of the Rhinolophidae, as are these animals:
- Malayan horseshoe bat weighting only 6 grams
- Lander’s horseshoe bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Noack’s roundleaf bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Darling’s horseshoe bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Malayan tailless leaf-nosed bat weighting only 6 grams
- Bushveld horseshoe bat weighting only 8 grams
- Blasius’s horseshoe bat weighting only 10 grams
- Temminck’s trident bat weighting only 4 grams
- Jones’s roundleaf bat weighting only 5 grams
- Large-eared horseshoe bat weighting only 10 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Orange leaf-nosed bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Woylie
- Vicuña
- Baird’s tapir
- Dromedary
- Guatemalan black howler
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest
- Homo sapiens
- Bowhead whale
- Blyth’s vole
- California mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Orange leaf-nosed bat
What other animals weight around 8 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Swinny’s horseshoe bat weighting 7 grams
- Thomas’s horseshoe bat weighting 8 grams
- Alpine shrew weighting 8 grams
- Philippine forest roundleaf bat weighting 9 grams
- Mexican long-tailed shrew weighting 7 grams
- Temminck’s mouse weighting 8 grams
- Gray climbing mouse weighting 9 grams
- Miniopterus macrocneme weighting 7 grams
- Seminole bat weighting 9 grams
- Bobrinski’s serotine weighting 7 grams
Animals with the same size as a Orange leaf-nosed bat
Also reaching around 4.9 cm (0′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Rufous trident bat gets as big as 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Least shrew tenrec gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Fringed myotis gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southeastern shrew gets as big as 5.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tailed tailless bat gets as big as 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian least shrew gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat gets as big as 5.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little brown bat gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Preble’s shrew gets as big as 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian pygmy shrew gets as big as 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)