How many baby Cyclops roundleaf bats are in a litter?
A Cyclops roundleaf bat (Hipposideros cyclops) 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 106 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 Cyclops roundleaf bat 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 cyclops roundleaf bat or cyclops leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros cyclops) is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae found in the forests of equatorial Africa.
Other animals of the family Rhinolophidae
Cyclops roundleaf bat is a member of the Rhinolophidae, as are these animals:
- Rüppell’s horseshoe bat weighting only 13 grams
- Marshall’s horseshoe bat weighting only 5 grams
- Orange leaf-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rhinolophus simplex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thomas’s horseshoe bat weighting only 8 grams
- Rufous horseshoe bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Fulvus roundleaf bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Big-eared horseshoe bat weighting only 6 grams
- Pomona roundleaf bat weighting only 6 grams
- Eloquent horseshoe bat weighting only 19 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Cyclops roundleaf bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Java mouse-deer
- Little bent-wing bat
- Townsend’s mole
- Cuvier’s gazelle
- Common wallaroo
- Temminck’s flying squirrel
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest
- Moor macaque
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby
- Bharal
Animals with the same weight as a Cyclops roundleaf bat
What other animals weight around 32 grams (0.07 lbs)?
- Angolan free-tailed bat weighting 26 grams
- Scolomys melanops weighting 26 grams
- Bailey’s pocket mouse weighting 27 grams
- Pygmy mouse lemur weighting 31 grams
- Little red kaluta weighting 32 grams
- Roraima mouse weighting 33 grams
- Abrothrix lanosus weighting 27 grams
- Western mouse weighting 34 grams
- Panamint kangaroo rat weighting 37 grams
- Common sheath-tailed bat weighting 30 grams
Animals with the same size as a Cyclops roundleaf bat
Also reaching around 7.5 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Plains pocket mouse gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Transcaucasian water shrew gets as big as 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Panamint kangaroo rat gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater white-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Vagrant shrew gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Woodford’s fruit bat gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- North African gerbil gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Antillean fruit-eating bat gets as big as 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Salt marsh harvest mouse gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)