Categories
Animal Age

How old does a Lesser short-nosed fruit bat get? (age expectancy)

What is the maximal age a Lesser short-nosed fruit bat reaches?

An adult Lesser short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) usually gets as old as 8 years.

Lesser short-nosed fruit bats are around 117 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.9 cm (0′ 1″). As a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Cynopterus), a Lesser short-nosed fruit bat caries out around 1 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 2 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″).

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.

A Lesser short-nosed fruit bat gets as old as 8 years

The lesser short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) is a species of megabat within the family Pteropodidae. It is a small bat that lives in South and Southeast Asia and Indonesia (Borneo). It weighs between 21 and 32 grams (0.74 and 1.13 oz), and/or 70 to 127 mm. It occurs in many types of habitat, but most frequently in disturbed forest, including lower montane forest and tropical lowland rain forest, plus gardens, mangroves, and vegetation on beaches.

Animals of the same family as a Lesser short-nosed fruit bat

Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Pteropodidae):

Animals that reach the same age as Lesser short-nosed fruit bat

With an average age of 8 years, Lesser short-nosed fruit bat are in good companionship of the following animals:

Animals with the same number of babies Lesser short-nosed fruit bat

The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:

Weighting as much as Lesser short-nosed fruit bat

A fully grown Lesser short-nosed fruit bat reaches around 33 grams (0.07 lbs). So do these animals: