How many baby Little Japanese horseshoe bats are in a litter?
A Little Japanese horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus cornutus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
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 Little Japanese 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 little Japanese horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus cornutus) is a species of bat in the family Rhinolophidae. It is found in Japan and possibly China. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. It has not yet been assessed for the IUCN Red List.
Other animals of the family Rhinolophidae
Little Japanese horseshoe bat is a member of the Rhinolophidae, as are these animals:
- Broad-eared horseshoe bat weighting only 14 grams
- Large-eared horseshoe bat weighting only 10 grams
- Telefomin roundleaf bat weighting only 15 grams
- Noack’s roundleaf bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Fulvus roundleaf bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Temminck’s trident bat weighting only 4 grams
- Bushveld horseshoe bat weighting only 8 grams
- Lesser great leaf-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Semon’s leaf-nosed bat weighting only 14 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Little Japanese horseshoe bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Egyptian free-tailed bat
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby
- Preuss’s red colobus
- PudĂș
- Greater nectar bat
- Indian rhinoceros
- Iberian ibex
- Western rock elephant shrew
- Gray bat
- Northern greater galago
Animals with the same weight as a Little Japanese horseshoe bat
What other animals weight around 7 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Smoky shrew weighting 7 grams
- Argentine brown bat weighting 7 grams
- Rendall’s serotine weighting 6 grams
- Ozimops loriae weighting 7 grams
- Eastern long-fingered bat weighting 7 grams
- Long-legged bat weighting 8 grams
- Lesser gray-brown musk shrew weighting 7 grams
- Indiana bat weighting 7 grams
- Lesser long-tailed shrew tenrec weighting 8 grams
- Rendall’s serotine weighting 6 grams