How many baby Common noctules are in a litter?
A Common noctule (Nyctalus noctula) 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 72 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.5 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Nyctalus). An adult Common noctule grows up to a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″).
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 common noctule (Nyctalus noctula) is a species of insectivorous bat common throughout Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Common noctule is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Van Gelder’s bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sind bat weighting only 7 grams
- White-winged serotine weighting only 5 grams
- Black-gilded pipistrelle weighting only 10 grams
- Rendall’s serotine weighting only 6 grams
- Cadorna’s pipistrelle weighting only 6 grams
- Rendall’s serotine weighting only 6 grams
- Bechstein’s bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Glen’s wattled bat weighting only 10 grams
- White-winged serotine weighting only 5 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Common noctule
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Pennant’s colobus
- Red slender loris
- Ear-spot squirrel
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby
- Asinus
- Egyptian fruit bat
- Dwarf sperm whale
- Red bush squirrel
- Nilgiri langur
Animals that get as old as a Common noctule
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12 years:
- Brown mouse lemur with 12 years
- Harnessed bushbuck with 13 years
- Tasmanian pademelon with 10 years
- Banded linsang with 10.67 years
- Kodkod with 11 years
- Taruca with 10.58 years
- Myotis vivesi with 10 years
- Pampas fox with 13.67 years
- Mountain nyala with 11 years
- Coypu with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Common noctule
What other animals weight around 28 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Abrothrix lanosus weighting 27 grams
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel weighting 30 grams
- Puno grass mouse weighting 30 grams
- Tailless fruit bat weighting 26 grams
- Nigerian shrew weighting 23 grams
- Handley’s slender opossum weighting 30 grams
- Western jumping mouse weighting 27 grams
- Hummelinck’s vesper mouse weighting 27 grams
- Lined pocket mouse weighting 23 grams
- Kemp’s grass mouse weighting 26 grams
Animals with the same size as a Common noctule
Also reaching around 7.5 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Grant’s golden mole gets as big as 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common blossom bat gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Least pygmy squirrel gets as big as 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Drouhard’s shrew tenrec gets as big as 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Oligoryzomys nigripes gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Serotine bat gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- One-toothed shrew mouse gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern pygmy mouse gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tongued nectar bat gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)