How many baby Lesser great leaf-nosed bats are in a litter?
A Lesser great leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros turpis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Rhinolophidae family (genus: Hipposideros). An adult Lesser great leaf-nosed 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 lesser great leaf-nosed bat or lesser roundleaf bat (Hipposideros turpis) is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae. It is found in Japan. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Rhinolophidae
Lesser great leaf-nosed bat is a member of the Rhinolophidae, as are these animals:
- Fawn leaf-nosed bat weighting only 8 grams
- Marshall’s horseshoe bat weighting only 5 grams
- Large-eared horseshoe bat weighting only 10 grams
- Orange leaf-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Spurred roundleaf bat weighting only 6 grams
- Noack’s roundleaf bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thailand roundleaf bat weighting only 4 grams
- Croslet horseshoe bat weighting only 7 grams
- Stoliczka’s trident bat weighting only 6 grams
- Benito roundleaf bat weighting only 6 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Lesser great leaf-nosed bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Egyptian fruit bat
- Northern glider
- Gray brocket
- Ground pangolin
- Woodlark cuscus
- Caspian seal
- Long-finned pilot whale
- Gee’s golden langur
- Dent’s mona monkey
- Pale-throated sloth
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser great leaf-nosed bat
What other animals weight around 33 grams (0.07 lbs)?
- Goldman’s water mouse weighting 38 grams
- Rock vole weighting 39 grams
- White-bellied slender opossum weighting 34 grams
- Graphiurus hueti weighting 30 grams
- Saunder’s vlei rat weighting 34 grams
- Pinyon mouse weighting 27 grams
- North African gerbil weighting 27 grams
- Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse weighting 28 grams
- Aztec mouse weighting 34 grams
- Hairy-legged vampire bat weighting 28 grams