How many baby Lesser horseshoe bats are in a litter?
A Lesser horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hipposideros) 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 75 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 1.09 meter (3′ 7″). They are a member of the Rhinolophidae family (genus: Rhinolophus). An adult Lesser horseshoe bat grows up to a size of 3.8 cm (0′ 2″).
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 horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hipposideros) is a type of small European insectivorous bat, related to its larger cousin, the greater horseshoe bat. As with all horseshoe bats, the species gets its name from its distinctive horseshoe-shaped noseleaf.
Other animals of the family Rhinolophidae
Lesser horseshoe bat is a member of the Rhinolophidae, as are these animals:
- Borneo roundleaf bat weighting only 2 grams
- Percival’s trident bat weighting only 4 grams
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Darling’s horseshoe bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Marshall’s horseshoe bat weighting only 5 grams
- Cape horseshoe bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thailand roundleaf bat weighting only 4 grams
- Great roundleaf bat weighting only 50 grams
- Malayan tailless leaf-nosed bat weighting only 6 grams
- Dent’s horseshoe bat weighting only 6 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Lesser horseshoe bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle
- Jentink’s duiker
- Greater mouse-deer
- Bicolored-spined porcupine
- Guatemalan deer mouse
- Madagascan large free-tailed bat
- Mountain nyala
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat
- Gray bat
- Monjon
Animals that get as old as a Lesser horseshoe bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 21 years:
- Big brown bat with 20 years
- Nilgai with 21.67 years
- Mountain zebra with 24 years
- Large Indian civet with 20 years
- Eld’s deer with 19.33 years
- Verreaux’s sifaka with 20.58 years
- American marten with 19 years
- Eurasian beaver with 25 years
- Kob with 21.92 years
- Bohor reedbuck with 18 years
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser horseshoe bat
What other animals weight around 4 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Little yellow bat weighting 4 grams
- Clear-winged woolly bat weighting 4 grams
- Hardwicke’s woolly bat weighting 4 grams
- Delany’s mouse weighting 4 grams
- Maclaud’s horseshoe bat weighting 4 grams
- Cinnamon myotis weighting 4 grams
- Borneo roundleaf bat weighting 4 grams
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat weighting 4 grams
- Thailand roundleaf bat weighting 4 grams
- California myotis weighting 4 grams
Animals with the same size as a Lesser horseshoe bat
Also reaching around 3.8 cm (0′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Cursor grass mouse gets as big as 3.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Desert pocket mouse gets as big as 3.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Daubenton’s bat gets as big as 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Woermann’s bat gets as big as 4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle gets as big as 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle gets as big as 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Mexican free-tailed bat gets as big as 4.1 cm (0′ 2″)
- White-winged serotine gets as big as 3.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Wagner’s mustached bat gets as big as 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Common pipistrelle gets as big as 3.9 cm (0′ 2″)