How big does a White-tailed deer get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) reaches an average size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 23 years, they grow from 2.95 kg (6.5 lbs) to 75.6 kg (166.67 lbs). A White-tailed deer has 1 babies at once. The White-tailed deer (genus: Odocoileus) is a member of the family Cervidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known as the whitetail or Virginia deer, is a medium-sized deer native to North America, Central America, Ecuador, and South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia. It has also been introduced to New Zealand, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, the Bahamas, the Lesser Antilles, and some countries in Europe, such as the Czech Republic, Finland, Romania, Serbia, Germany, and France. In the Americas, it is the most widely distributed wild ungulate.In North America, the species is widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains as well as in southwestern Arizona and most of Mexico, aside from Lower California. It is mostly replaced by the black-tailed or mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) from that point west except for in mixed deciduous riparian corridors, river valley bottomlands, and lower foothills of the northern Rocky Mountain region from South Dakota west to eastern Washington and eastern Oregon and north to northeastern British Columbia and southern Yukon, including in the Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands. Texas is home to the most white-tailed deer of any U.S. state or Canadian province, with an estimated population of over four million. Notably high populations of white-tailed deer occur in the Edwards Plateau of Central Texas. Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, Illinois, Wisconsin, Maryland, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana also boast high deer densities.The conversion of land adjacent to the Canadian Rockies into agriculture use and partial clear-cutting of coniferous trees (resulting in widespread deciduous vegetation) has been favorable to the white-tailed deer and has pushed its distribution to as far north as Yukon. Populations of deer around the Great Lakes have also expanded their range northwards, due to conversion of land to agricultural uses favoring more deciduous vegetation, and local caribou and moose populations. The westernmost population of the species, known as the Columbian white-tailed deer, once was widespread in the mixed forests along the Willamette and Cowlitz River valleys of western Oregon and southwestern Washington, but today its numbers have been considerably reduced, and it is classified as near-threatened. This population is separated from other white-tailed deer populations.
Animals of the same family as a White-tailed deer
We found other animals of the Cervidae family:
- Bawean deer with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Visayan spotted deer bringing 46.48 kilos (102.47 lbs) to the scale
- Reindeer with a size of 2.23 meter (7′ 4″)
- Moose with a size of 2.83 meter (9′ 4″)
- Persian fallow deer bringing 74.4 kilos (164.02 lbs) to the scale
- Mule deer with a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Gray brocket with a size of 91.8 cm (3′ 1″)
- Eld’s deer with a size of 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Red deer with a size of 2.14 meter (7′ 1″)
- Gongshan muntjac bringing 18.45 kilos (40.68 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same size as a White-tailed deer
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as White-tailed deer:
- Grant’s gazelle with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Harbour porpoise with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Caspian seal with a size of 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- Baikal seal with a size of 1.28 meter (4′ 3″)
- Vicuña with a size of 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Antarctic fur seal with a size of 1.57 meter (5′ 2″)
- Brown bear with a size of 1.49 meter (4′ 11″)
- Cougar with a size of 1.4 meter (4′ 8″)
- Baiji with a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 8″)
- Javan warty pig with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a White-tailed deer
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a White-tailed deer:
- Guadalupe fur seal
- Darling’s horseshoe bat
- Riverine rabbit
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat
- Java mouse-deer
- Oribi
- Herbert River ringtail possum
- Northern bottlenose whale
- Drill (animal)
Animals with the same life expectancy as a White-tailed deer
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a White-tailed deer:
- Eastern grey kangaroo with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Pacific white-sided dolphin with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Cheetah with an average maximal age of 19 years
- Sitatunga with an average maximal age of 21.5 years
- De Brazza’s monkey with an average maximal age of 26.25 years
- False killer whale with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey with an average maximal age of 19 years
- Moose with an average maximal age of 27 years
- Domestic yak with an average maximal age of 22.25 years
- Greater mouse-eared bat with an average maximal age of 22 years
Animals with the same weight as a White-tailed deer
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Odocoileus virginianus:
- Nyala with a weight of 87.31 kilos (192.49 lbs)
- Common warthog with a weight of 82.5 kilos (181.88 lbs)
- Caspian seal with a weight of 62.3 kilos (137.35 lbs)
- Taruca with a weight of 68.6 kilos (151.24 lbs)
- Spotted hyena with a weight of 63.69 kilos (140.41 lbs)
- Baikal seal with a weight of 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs)
- South American fur seal with a weight of 68.14 kilos (150.22 lbs)
- Chital with a weight of 69.5 kilos (153.22 lbs)
- Arabian oryx with a weight of 75.43 kilos (166.29 lbs)
- Kob with a weight of 79.77 kilos (175.86 lbs)