What is the maximal age a Common pipistrelle reaches?
An adult Common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) usually gets as old as 16.67 years.
Common pipistrelles are around 44 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2 cm (0′ 1″). As a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Pipistrellus), a Common pipistrelle caries out around 1 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 3.9 cm (0′ 2″).
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 pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) is a small pipistrelle microbat whose very large range extends across most of Europe, North Africa, southwestern Asia, and may extend into Korea. It is one of the most common bat species in the British Isles. In Europe, the northernmost confirmed records are from southern Finland near 60°N. In 1999, the common pipistrelle was split into two species on the basis of different-frequency echolocation calls. The common pipistrelle uses a call of 45 kHz, while the soprano pipistrelle echolocates at 55 kHz. Since the two species were distinguished, a number of other differences, in appearance, habitat and food, have also been discovered.
Animals of the same family as a Common pipistrelle
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Vespertilionidae):
- Cape serotine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brazilian brown bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown long-eared bat becoming 30 years old
- Desert long-eared bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser noctule with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser bamboo bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cape serotine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Malagasy mouse-eared bat bringing the scale to 5 grams
- Tickell’s bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Common pipistrelle
With an average age of 16.67 years, Common pipistrelle are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Short-eared possum usually reaching 17 years
- Lowland paca usually reaching 16 years
- Snow leopard usually reaching 18 years
- Antilopine kangaroo usually reaching 16 years
- Big brown bat usually reaching 20 years
- Geoffroy’s bat usually reaching 18 years
- Common vampire bat usually reaching 19.5 years
- Menzbier’s marmot usually reaching 15 years
- Yellow mongoose usually reaching 15.17 years
- Golden-backed uakari usually reaching 18 years
Animals with the same number of babies Common pipistrelle
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Sloth bear
- Sowerby’s beaked whale
- Crowned lemur
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat
- Hottentot golden mole
- Hartebeest
- Sei whale
- Gray snub-nosed monkey
- Western gorilla
- Gray snub-nosed monkey
Weighting as much as Common pipistrelle
A fully grown Common pipistrelle reaches around 5 grams (0.01 lbs). So do these animals:
- Eastern forest bat with 5 grams
- Mexican funnel-eared bat with 5 grams
- Rendall’s serotine with 6 grams
- Eastern small-footed myotis with 5 grams
- Small Asian sheath-tailed bat with 5 grams
- Pipistrellus babu with 4 grams
- Chinese pipistrelle with 5 grams
- Pilbara ningaui with 6 grams
- Dormer’s bat with 6 grams
- Western small-footed bat with 4 grams
Animals as big as a Common pipistrelle
Those animals grow as big as a Common pipistrelle:
- Grey long-eared bat with 4.1 cm (0′ 2″)
- Woermann’s bat with 4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Proboscis bat with 4.2 cm (0′ 2″)
- Mexican free-tailed bat with 4.1 cm (0′ 2″)
- Daubenton’s bat with 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Cursor grass mouse with 3.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- White-winged serotine with 3.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Wagner’s mustached bat with 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Daubenton’s bat with 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)