How many baby Sundevall’s roundleaf bats are in a litter?
A Sundevall’s roundleaf bat (Hipposideros caffer) 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 140 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Rhinolophidae family (genus: Hipposideros). An adult Sundevall’s roundleaf bat grows up to a size of 5.4 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.
Sundevall’s roundleaf bat (Hipposideros caffer), also called Sundevall’s leaf-nosed bat, is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae.These bats are very similar in appearance to the closely related Noack’s roundleaf bat, and the two have in the past been considered to be the same species. Although more recent research suggests that they are distinct, taken together, they possibly represent a species group containing a number of cryptic species or subspecies that have yet to be distinguished.
Other animals of the family Rhinolophidae
Sundevall’s roundleaf bat is a member of the Rhinolophidae, as are these animals:
- Shield-faced roundleaf bat weighting only 40 grams
- Schneider’s leaf-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eloquent horseshoe bat weighting only 19 grams
- Great roundleaf bat weighting only 50 grams
- Arcuate horseshoe bat weighting only 8 grams
- Ridley’s leaf-nosed bat weighting only 9 grams
- Trefoil horseshoe bat weighting only 15 grams
- Intermediate horseshoe bat weighting only 13 grams
- Intermediate roundleaf bat weighting only 19 grams
- Blasius’s horseshoe bat weighting only 10 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Sundevall’s roundleaf bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Impala
- Dwarf sperm whale
- Felou gundi
- Link rat
- Hoolock gibbon
- Arabian gazelle
- Zanzibar bushbaby
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Northern bottlenose whale
- Himalayan tahr
Animals with the same weight as a Sundevall’s roundleaf bat
What other animals weight around 9 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Micronycteris brachyotis weighting 10 grams
- Greater sac-winged bat weighting 8 grams
- Papillose woolly bat weighting 10 grams
- Northern birch mouse weighting 8 grams
- Honey possum weighting 9 grams
- Altai birch mouse weighting 10 grams
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat weighting 9 grams
- Thick-eared bat weighting 8 grams
- Fog shrew weighting 8 grams
- Yellow serotine weighting 10 grams
Animals with the same size as a Sundevall’s roundleaf bat
Also reaching around 5.4 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Saharan shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seba’s short-tailed bat gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Silky pocket mouse gets as big as 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Iberian shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tailed tailless bat gets as big as 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Rhinolophus hilli gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Vagrant shrew gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Red fruit bat gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Oligoryzomys nigripes gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat gets as big as 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)