What is the maximal age a Sambar deer reaches?
An adult Sambar deer (Cervus unicolor) usually gets as old as 26.42 years.
Sambar deers are around 246 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 10.3 kg (22.71 lbs) and measure 57 cm (1′ 11″). As a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Cervus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 2.04 meter (6′ 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 sambar (Rusa unicolor) is a large deer native to the Indian subcontinent, South China, and Southeast Asia that is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List since 2008. Populations have declined substantially due to severe hunting, insurgency, and industrial exploitation of habitat.The name “sambar” is also sometimes used to refer to the Philippine deer, called the “Philippine sambar” and the Javan rusa, called the “Sunda sambar”.
Animals of the same family as a Sambar deer
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Cervidae):
- Schomburgk’s deer growing to a mass of 106 kgs (233.69 lbs)
- Bornean yellow muntjac growing to a mass of 18.87 kgs (41.6 lbs)
- Sambar deer becoming 26.42 years old
- South Andean deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Taruca becoming 10.58 years old
- Schomburgk’s deer growing to a mass of 107.63 kgs (237.28 lbs)
- Pudú becoming 10 years old
- Pudú becoming 12.5 years old
- Mérida brocket growing to a mass of 16.5 kgs (36.38 lbs)
- Calamian deer with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Sambar deer
With an average age of 26.42 years, Sambar deer are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Gelada usually reaching 28 years
- Moose usually reaching 27 years
- Pagai Island macaque usually reaching 30 years
- Common wombat usually reaching 26.08 years
- Golden lion tamarin usually reaching 24.75 years
- Platypus usually reaching 22 years
- Aardwolf usually reaching 25 years
- African brush-tailed porcupine usually reaching 22.83 years
- South Asian river dolphin usually reaching 28 years
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin usually reaching 27 years
Animals with the same number of babies Sambar deer
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Northern greater galago
- Gerenuk
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby
- Verreaux’s sifaka
- Ryukyu flying fox
- Sykes’ monkey
- Goeldi’s marmoset
- Sloggett’s vlei rat
- Australian sea lion
- Granada hare
Weighting as much as Sambar deer
A fully grown Sambar deer reaches around 176 kg (388.01 lbs). So do these animals:
- Thorold’s deer weighting 161.68 kilos (356.44 lbs) on average
- Australian sea lion weighting 189.14 kilos (416.98 lbs) on average
- Père David’s deer weighting 165.5 kilos (364.86 lbs) on average
- Blue wildebeest weighting 197.31 kilos (434.99 lbs) on average
- Melon-headed whale weighting 206 kilos (454.15 lbs) on average
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin weighting 186.76 kilos (411.73 lbs) on average
- Anoa weighting 180.86 kilos (398.73 lbs) on average
- Mountain tapir weighting 155.46 kilos (342.73 lbs) on average
- Caribbean monk seal weighting 198.38 kilos (437.35 lbs) on average
- Visayan warty pig weighting 189.4 kilos (417.56 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Sambar deer
Those animals grow as big as a Sambar deer:
- Northern fur seal with 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)
- Sambar deer with 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)
- Hawaiian monk seal with 2.24 meter (7′ 5″)
- Guadalupe fur seal with 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
- Pantropical spotted dolphin with 2.14 meter (7′ 1″)
- Alpaca with 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Short-beaked common dolphin with 2.44 meter (8′ 1″)
- Eld’s deer with 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Saola with 1.75 meter (5′ 9″)
- Reindeer with 2.23 meter (7′ 4″)