How big does a Greater false vampire bat get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Greater false vampire bat (Megaderma lyra) reaches an average size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 14 years, they grow from 10 grams (0.02 lbs) to 39 grams (0.09 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Greater false vampire bats have 1 babies about 1 times per year. The Greater false vampire bat (genus: Megaderma) is a member of the family Megadermatidae.
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 greater false vampire bat (Megaderma lyra) is a species of bat in the family Megadermatidae, the false vampire bats. It is native to Asia. It is also known as the Indian false vampire bat or greater false-vampire
Animals of the same family as a Greater false vampire bat
We found other animals of the Megadermatidae family:
- Lesser false vampire bat with 1 babies per litter
- Yellow-winged bat with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ghost bat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Heart-nosed bat with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Greater false vampire bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Greater false vampire bat:
- Common blossom bat with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common vampire bat with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- New Guinean planigale with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Egyptian free-tailed bat with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Montane grass mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tundra shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Jamaican fruit bat with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Greater false vampire bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Greater false vampire bat:
- Sugar glider
- Woolly horseshoe bat
- Common wallaroo
- Naked-rumped pouched bat
- Red giant flying squirrel
- Hispaniolan hutia
- Pygmy ringtail possum
- Mahogany glider
- Southeastern myotis
- African buffalo
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Greater false vampire bat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Greater false vampire bat:
- Calabar angwantibo with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Common marmoset with an average maximal age of 16.75 years
- Common bent-wing bat with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Pygmy hog with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Llama with an average maximal age of 14.17 years
- Mountain reedbuck with an average maximal age of 12.25 years
- Red slender loris with an average maximal age of 16.33 years
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Parti-coloured bat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Ground cuscus with an average maximal age of 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Greater false vampire bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Megaderma lyra:
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed dasyure bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Oecomys bicolor bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Fawn hopping mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Fat-tailed false antechinus bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed dasyure bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Large Japanese field mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Bunchgrass leaf-eared mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Eldorado broad-nosed bat bringing 35 grams to the scale