What is the maximal age a Common noctule reaches?
An adult Common noctule (Nyctalus noctula) usually gets as old as 12 years.
Common noctules are around 72 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.5 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Nyctalus), a Common noctule caries out around 1 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The common noctule (Nyctalus noctula) is a species of insectivorous bat common throughout Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Common noctule
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Vespertilionidae):
- Kenyan wattled bat bringing the scale to 7 grams
- Tropical big-eared brown bat bringing the scale to 11 grams
- Yellow serotine bringing the scale to 10 grams
- Hoary bat becoming 2.08 years old
- Birdlike noctule with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Variegated butterfly bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Large-eared pied bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellowish myotis bringing the scale to 5 grams
- Narrow-winged pipistrelle bringing the scale to 15 grams
- Blanford’s bat bringing the scale to 6 grams
Animals that reach the same age as Common noctule
With an average age of 12 years, Common noctule are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Northern treeshrew usually reaching 10 years
- Central American agouti usually reaching 10 years
- Spectral tarsier usually reaching 12 years
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby usually reaching 12 years
- Grey rhebok usually reaching 12.25 years
- Striped polecat usually reaching 13.33 years
- Pygmy hog usually reaching 12 years
- Lesser long-nosed bat usually reaching 10 years
- Salt’s dik-dik usually reaching 14 years
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby usually reaching 12 years
Animals with the same number of babies Common noctule
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Guinea baboon
- Southern forest bat
- Peters’s flat-headed bat
- Seba’s short-tailed bat
- African pygmy squirrel
- Mediterranean horseshoe bat
- Sika deer
- African savanna hare
- Red bush squirrel
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby
Weighting as much as Common noctule
A fully grown Common noctule reaches around 28 grams (0.06 lbs). So do these animals:
- Woodford’s fruit bat with 30 grams
- Serotine bat with 23 grams
- Big crested mastiff bat with 29 grams
- Florida mouse with 30 grams
- California pocket mouse with 23 grams
- Crafty vesper mouse with 27 grams
- Least gerbil with 26 grams
- Western heather vole with 25 grams
- Kultarr with 25 grams
- European free-tailed bat with 28 grams
Animals as big as a Common noctule
Those animals grow as big as a Common noctule:
- White-eared pocket mouse with 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Inquisitive shrew mole with 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel with 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Tundra shrew with 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Short-nosed harvest mouse with 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Japanese mountain mole with 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tongued nectar bat with 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Narrow-skulled pocket mouse with 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser striped shrew with 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)