How many baby Greater horseshoe bats are in a litter?
A Greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) 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 91 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.09 meter (3′ 7″). They are a member of the Rhinolophidae family (genus: Rhinolophus). An adult Greater horseshoe bat grows up to a size of 3.74 meter (12′ 4″).
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 greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) is an insectivorous bat of the genus Rhinolophus. Its distribution covers Europe, Northern Africa, Central Asia and Eastern Asia. It is the largest of the horseshoe bats in Europe and is thus easily distinguished from other species. The species is sedentary, typically travelling up to 30 kilometres (19 mi) between the winter and summer roosts, with the longest recorded movement being 180 km (110 mi). The frequencies used by this bat species for echolocation lie between 69–83 kHz, have most energy at 81 kHz and have an average duration of 37.4 ms.
Other animals of the family Rhinolophidae
Greater horseshoe bat is a member of the Rhinolophidae, as are these animals:
- Spurred roundleaf bat weighting only 6 grams
- Semon’s leaf-nosed bat weighting only 14 grams
- Malayan tailless leaf-nosed bat weighting only 6 grams
- Dobson’s horseshoe bat weighting only 19 grams
- Acuminate horseshoe bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rüppell’s horseshoe bat weighting only 13 grams
- Northern leaf-nosed bat weighting only 12 grams
- Swinny’s horseshoe bat weighting only 7 grams
- Shamel’s horseshoe bat weighting only 9 grams
- Least horseshoe bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Greater horseshoe bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Rufous hare-wallaby
- Nubian ibex
- Common noctule
- Biak glider
- Common ringtail possum
- Servaline genet
- Blackish deer mouse
- Ribboned rope squirrel
- Guanaco
- Bush vlei rat
Animals that get as old as a Greater horseshoe bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 30 years:
- Blue monkey with 27.08 years
- Aardvark with 24 years
- Sunda slow loris with 26.5 years
- Banteng with 26.5 years
- Addax with 25.67 years
- South American sea lion with 24.75 years
- West Indian manatee with 30 years
- Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth with 32.08 years
- Red deer with 26.75 years
- Common eland with 24.33 years
Animals with the same weight as a Greater horseshoe bat
What other animals weight around 22 grams (0.05 lbs)?
- Brukkaros pygmy rock mouse weighting 20 grams
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat weighting 26 grams
- Krebs’s fat mouse weighting 20 grams
- Meadow jumping mouse weighting 18 grams
- Akodon budini weighting 26 grams
- Nigerian shrew weighting 23 grams
- Tschudi’s yellow-shouldered bat weighting 21 grams
- Blackish grass mouse weighting 19 grams
- Long-nosed caenolestid weighting 21 grams
- Carpentarian dunnart weighting 25 grams