How many baby Rufous horseshoe bats are in a litter?
A Rufous horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus rouxii) 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 122 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Rhinolophidae family (genus: Rhinolophus). An adult Rufous horseshoe bat grows up to a size of 1.14 meter (3′ 9″).
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 rufous horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus rouxii) is a species of bat in the family Rhinolophidae. It is found in China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam.
Other animals of the family Rhinolophidae
Rufous horseshoe bat is a member of the Rhinolophidae, as are these animals:
- Pomona roundleaf bat weighting only 6 grams
- Bokhara horseshoe bat weighting only 15 grams
- Intermediate roundleaf bat weighting only 19 grams
- Rhinolophus sedulus weighting only 8 grams
- Intermediate horseshoe bat weighting only 13 grams
- Semon’s leaf-nosed bat weighting only 14 grams
- Peninsular horseshoe bat weighting only 8 grams
- Trefoil horseshoe bat weighting only 15 grams
- Rüppell’s horseshoe bat weighting only 13 grams
- Malayan horseshoe bat weighting only 6 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Rufous horseshoe bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Baiji
- Southeastern myotis
- Black wallaroo
- Drill (animal)
- Eastern forest bat
- Père David’s deer
- Swamp wallaby
- Variegated butterfly bat
- Underwood’s bonneted bat
- Woylie
Animals that get as old as a Rufous horseshoe bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5 years:
- Euphrates jerboa with 4.17 years
- Forest giant squirrel with 5.08 years
- Cairo spiny mouse with 5 years
- Woodland dormouse with 5.75 years
- Forest dormouse with 4 years
- Numbat with 6 years
- Great gerbil with 4 years
- Banded hare-wallaby with 4 years
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with 4 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with 4.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Rufous horseshoe bat
What other animals weight around 12 grams (0.03 lbs)?
- African black shrew weighting 11 grams
- Elliot’s short-tailed shrew weighting 14 grams
- Taiva shrew tenrec weighting 12 grams
- Central pebble-mound mouse weighting 12 grams
- Southeast Asian shrew weighting 12 grams
- Ryukyu mouse weighting 14 grams
- Variegated butterfly bat weighting 11 grams
- Natal long-fingered bat weighting 10 grams
- Lesser large-headed shrew weighting 12 grams
- Savanna shrew weighting 10 grams