What is the maximal age a Myotis vivesi reaches?
An adult Myotis vivesi (Myotis vivesi) usually gets as old as 10 years.
When born, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Myotis). Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 5.2 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.
Myotis vivesi, the fish-eating bat or fish-eating myotis, is a species of bat that lives around the Gulf of California, and feeds on fish and crustaceans. It is the largest species of the genus Myotis in the Americas, and has exceptionally large feet, which it uses in hunting. It was described in 1901 by Auguste Ménégaux and is the only species in the subgenus (or genus) Pizonyx.
Animals of the same family as a Myotis vivesi
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Vespertilionidae):
- Indiana bat becoming 20 years old
- Eptesicus demissus bringing the scale to 13 grams
- Dormer’s bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Little broad-nosed bat bringing the scale to 10 grams
- Greater long-fingered bat bringing the scale to 14 grams
- Scully’s tube-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rusty pipistrelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Schlieffen’s bat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sind bat bringing the scale to 7 grams
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Myotis vivesi
With an average age of 10 years, Myotis vivesi are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Short-eared dog usually reaching 11 years
- Black giant squirrel usually reaching 10.08 years
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat usually reaching 10.08 years
- Asian small-clawed otter usually reaching 10.08 years
- Lesser long-nosed bat usually reaching 10 years
- Northern tamandua usually reaching 9.5 years
- Banded mongoose usually reaching 12 years
- Ground cuscus usually reaching 12 years
- Red-tailed chipmunk usually reaching 8 years
- Maned sloth usually reaching 12 years
Weighting as much as Myotis vivesi
A fully grown Myotis vivesi reaches around 25 grams (0.06 lbs). So do these animals:
- True’s vole with 22 grams
- Golden mouse with 22 grams
- Brush mouse with 23 grams
- Tilda’s yellow-shouldered bat with 24 grams
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with 28 grams
- Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat with 21 grams
- Common sheath-tailed bat with 30 grams
- Northwestern deer mouse with 28 grams
- Pygmy rock mouse with 20 grams
- Northern bog lemming with 21 grams