Whats the oldest living bat?? how old is it???

Question

how old is it???

Answer 1

41 years old and still kicking

A bat from Siberia has set the world’s longevity record for small mammals, a feat that has grabbed the attention of scientists who study aging in humans. The male Brandt’s myotis is at least 41 years old.



Recently recaptured from the wild, the bat bore a numbered band that had been attached by researchers who captured and banded 1,544 bats near caves in the Siberian region of Russia in the 1960s.



The bat’s remarkable longevity was reported in the Journal of Gerontology by Andrej J. Podlutsky and Steven N. Austad of the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, and Alexander M. Khritankov and Nikolai D. Ovodov of the State Nature Researve s****. in Krasnoyarsk, Russa.



The scientists said the bat lived 9.8 times longer that would have been expected based on its “longevity quotient” (age standardized by body size). That is the highest value ever reported for any mammal, including those maintained in captivity.

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Answer 2

My grandfather owns a cricket bat that is more than sixty years old, does this count?

Answer 3

The new species, named Onychonycteris finneyi, was unearthed in 2003 in southwestern Wyoming but the significance is only fully appreciated today, with the publication of an analysis of the remains in the journal Nature.

Now the near complete skeleton of a fossil "missing link" that flitted about 52 million years ago suggests that bats flew first and then developed their famous ability to use echolocation to get around in the dark.

Answer 4

Unfortunately, we don't have detailed demographic history on the longevity of every individual bat.

However, there was one little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) which was captured and marked, and was then re-captured 30 years later!  This would indicate that at least the little brown bat can live upwards of 30 years in the wild, which is a remarkably long time for such a small mammal - which generally have short, intense lives.