How many baby Commerson’s roundleaf bats are in a litter?
A Commerson’s roundleaf bat (Hipposideros commersoni) 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 150 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 28 grams (0.06 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Rhinolophidae family (genus: Hipposideros). An adult Commerson’s roundleaf bat grows up to a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″).
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.
Commerson’s roundleaf bat (Macronycteris commersoni), also known as Commerson’s leaf-nosed bat, is a species of bat endemic to Madagascar. It is named after French naturalist Philibert Commerson (1727-1773). Bat populations of Africa or São Tomé and Príncipe formerly considered part of this species are now classified separately as M. gigas, M. thomensis or M. vattatus, while one from Madagascar was split off to become M. cryptovalorona. It was formerly placed in the genus Hipposideros, but moved to the resurrected Macronycteris in 2017 on the basis of molecular evidence.
Other animals of the family Rhinolophidae
Commerson’s roundleaf bat is a member of the Rhinolophidae, as are these animals:
- Marshall’s horseshoe bat weighting only 5 grams
- Shield-faced roundleaf bat weighting only 40 grams
- Trefoil horseshoe bat weighting only 15 grams
- Dent’s horseshoe bat weighting only 6 grams
- Rufous horseshoe bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rhinolophus simplex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser great leaf-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bourret’s horseshoe bat weighting only 8 grams
- Large-eared horseshoe bat weighting only 10 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Commerson’s roundleaf bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Nilgiri tahr
- Chimpanzee
- Shining thicket rat
- Maroon leaf monkey
- Lander’s horseshoe bat
- Dwarf hutia
- Spectral bat
- Sugar glider
- Spectacled flying fox
- Yellow-backed duiker
Animals with the same weight as a Commerson’s roundleaf bat
What other animals weight around 92 grams (0.2 lbs)?
- Short-tailed hopping mouse weighting 89 grams
- Candango mouse weighting 97 grams
- Woolly-headed spiny tree-rat weighting 108 grams
- Guinean gerbil weighting 103 grams
- Coruro weighting 101 grams
- Spy hocicudo weighting 81 grams
- European mole weighting 86 grams
- Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat weighting 86 grams
- Central American dwarf squirrel weighting 87 grams
- Wetzel’s climbing mouse weighting 89 grams
Animals with the same size as a Commerson’s roundleaf bat
Also reaching around 12.7 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Ghost bat gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern caenolestid gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hainan gymnure gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Snow-footed Oldfield mouse gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed dasyure gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Townsend’s vole gets as big as 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Chiruromys lamia gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindoro climbing rat gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Irenomys gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)