What is the maximal age a Whiskered bat reaches?
An adult Whiskered bat (Myotis mystacinus) usually gets as old as 9.25 years.
When born, they weight 80 kg (176.37 lbs) and measure 0.9 cm (0′ 1″). As a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Myotis), a Whiskered bat caries out around 1 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 5.1 meter (16′ 9″).
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 whiskered bat (Myotis mystacinus) and related species, are small European bats with long fur. Although uncommon, M. mystacinus is often found around human habitation and around water; it is similar to Brandt’s bat Myotis brandtii, from which it was distinguished as a separate species only in 1970.
Animals of the same family as a Whiskered bat
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Vespertilionidae):
- Burmese whiskered bat bringing the scale to 8 grams
- Geoffroy’s bat becoming 18 years old
- Long-fingered bat bringing the scale to 8 grams
- Riparian myotis bringing the scale to 4 grams
- Glen’s wattled bat bringing the scale to 10 grams
- Gould’s long-eared bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pipistrellus babu bringing the scale to 4 grams
- Pygmy long-eared bat bringing the scale to 4 grams
- Big brown bat becoming 20 years old
- Moloney’s mimic bat bringing the scale to 8 grams
Animals that reach the same age as Whiskered bat
With an average age of 9.25 years, Whiskered bat are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Cape gray mongoose usually reaching 8.67 years
- Mountain beaver usually reaching 10 years
- Long-footed potoroo usually reaching 10 years
- Short-tailed chinchilla usually reaching 10 years
- Greater Egyptian gerbil usually reaching 8.17 years
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle usually reaching 8 years
- Cape fox usually reaching 10 years
- Javan mongoose usually reaching 10 years
- Bushveld elephant shrew usually reaching 8.75 years
- Red-necked pademelon usually reaching 9 years
Animals with the same number of babies Whiskered bat
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Oncilla
- Addax
- Montane fish-eating rat
- Nubian ibex
- Lander’s horseshoe bat
- Dusky fruit bat
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox
- Mediterranean monk seal
- Subalpine woolly rat
- Schreber’s yellow bat
Weighting as much as Whiskered bat
A fully grown Whiskered bat reaches around 3 grams (0.01 lbs). So do these animals:
- Thick-thumbed myotis with 3 grams
- Banana pipistrelle with 3 grams
- Heller’s pipistrelle with 3 grams
- Southeastern shrew with 3 grams
- Curacao myotis with 3 grams
- Angulate pipistrelle with 3 grams
- Little forest bat with 3 grams
- Spurrell’s woolly bat with 3 grams
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat with 3 grams
- Whitehead’s woolly bat with 3 grams