🦇Hammer-headed bat
Hypsignathus monstrosus, appelé parfois Hypsignathe ou Hypsignathe monstrueux est une espèce de chauve-souris appartenant à la famille des Ptéropodidés. C'est l'unique espèce du genre Hypsignathus. Elle vit dans différents types de forêts humides en Afrique. Elle se nourrit de jus de fruit : figues, mangues, bananes mais elle peut aussi manger des charognes et des petits oiseaux. Atteignant presque un mètre d'envergure, c'est la plus grande chauve-souris d'Afrique. Cet étrange animal est aussi appelé roussette à tête de cheval ou bien encore chien à tête de marteau mais les anglophones nomment cette espèce Hammer-headed bat ou Hammer-headed fruit bat que l'on peut traduire par « chauve-souris des fruits à tête en marteau ».
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- 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
Everything we know about the Hammer-headed bat
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.34 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 0.33 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length0.27 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass3.35 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan12 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length4.46 yearsestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity228 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation125 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 120 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1.3AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.3 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderChiroptera
- ›familyPteropodidae
- ›genusHypsignathus
- ›speciesHypsignathus monstrosus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderBats · Chiroptera
- familyPteropodidae
- genusHypsignathus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderBats · Chiroptera
- suborderMegachiroptera
- familyPteropodidae
- genusHypsignathus
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