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SpeciesChiropteraPteropodidae
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🦇Hammer-headed bat

Hypsignathus monstrosus H.Allen, 1861

Der Hammerkopf (Hypsignathus monstrosus) ist eine Säugetierart aus der Familie der Flughunde (Pteropodidae). Er hat seinen Namen von dem voluminösen Schädel der männlichen Tiere.

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≈ 1/180th of your weight
Also called
Hammer-headed Fruit Bat
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
0.34 kg
Body length
0.27 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
12 years
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Everything we know about the Hammer-headed bat

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Body mass
0.34 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 0.33 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length
0.27 m
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Brain mass
3.35 g
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Maximum lifespan
12 years
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Generation length
4.46 yearsestimated
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Age at maturity
228 days
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Gestation
125 days
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  • 120 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Litter size
1
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  • 1.3AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Volume l
0.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Hammer-headed bat yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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What it eats
fruit90%
warm-blooded animals10%
In other languages
Hammerkopf (de), Morcego-cabeça-de-martelo (pt), Wielkogłów (pl), Hypsignathus monstrosus (fr), Hypsignathus monstrosus (es), kalapácsfejű repülőkutya (hu) … and 19 more languages
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