How big does a Common noctule get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Common noctule (Nyctalus noctula) reaches an average size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 12 years, they grow from 5 grams (0.01 lbs) to 28 grams (0.06 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Common noctules have 1 babies about 1 times per year. The Common noctule (genus: Nyctalus) is a member of the family Vespertilionidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The common noctule (Nyctalus noctula) is a species of insectivorous bat common throughout Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Common noctule
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Dormer’s bat with 1 babies per litter
- Eastern red bat with 3 babies per litter
- Natterer’s bat with 1 babies per litter
- Daubenton’s bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Pallid large-footed myotis with a weight of 12 grams
- Riparian myotis with a weight of 4 grams
- Chinese pipistrelle with a weight of 5 grams
- Least pipistrelle with 1 babies per litter
- Northern bat with 1 babies per litter
- Small bent-winged bat with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Common noctule
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Common noctule:
- Antillean fruit-eating bat with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Silky mouse with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pallas’s pika with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nubra pika with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Savanna path shrew with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pacific shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Somali pygmy gerbil with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Japanese mountain mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Honey possum with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Common noctule
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Common noctule:
- Miniopterus macrocneme
- Goitered gazelle
- Desert long-eared bat
- Mountain goat
- Malayan porcupine
- Madagascan large free-tailed bat
- Typical vlei rat
- De Brazza’s monkey
- Forest giant squirrel
- Coppery ringtail possum
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Common noctule
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Common noctule:
- Bates’s pygmy antelope with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Cape ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Striped polecat with an average maximal age of 13.33 years
- Grey rhebok with an average maximal age of 12.25 years
- Boodie with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Northern treeshrew with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Long-tailed goral with an average maximal age of 13.17 years
- Javan warty pig with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Salt’s dik-dik with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Jamaican fruit bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Common noctule
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nyctalus noctula:
- Sandstone false antechinus bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Wood lemming bringing 30 grams to the scale
- White-throated round-eared bat bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Nut-colored yellow bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Western heather vole bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys arenalis bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Big crested mastiff bat bringing 29 grams to the scale