How big does a Gray brocket get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Gray brocket (Mazama gouazoupira) reaches an average size of 92.3 cm (3′ 1″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 12 years, they grow from 836 grams (1.84 lbs) to 16.4 kg (36.16 lbs). A Gray brocket has 1 babies at once. The Gray brocket (genus: Mazama) 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 gray brocket (Mazama gouazoubira), also known as the brown brocket, is a species of brocket deer from northern Argentina, Bolivia, southern Peru, eastern and southern Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. It formerly included the Amazonian brown brocket (M. nemorivaga) and sometimes also the Yucatan brown brocket (M. pandora) as subspecies. Unlike other species of brocket deer in its range, the gray brocket has a gray-brown fur without reddish tones.
Animals of the same family as a Gray brocket
We found other animals of the Cervidae family:
- Thorold’s deer with 1 babies per litter
- Schomburgk’s deer bringing 107.63 kilos (237.28 lbs) to the scale
- Red deer with a size of 2.14 meter (7′ 1″)
- Roosevelt’s muntjac with 1 babies per litter
- Tufted deer with 1 babies per litter
- Eld’s deer with a size of 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Philippine deer with a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Red brocket with 1 babies per litter
- Javan rusa with a size of 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Sambar deer with a size of 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)
Animals with the same size as a Gray brocket
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gray brocket:
- Wolverine with a size of 77.3 cm (2′ 7″)
- Giant armadillo with a size of 87.4 cm (2′ 11″)
- Binturong with a size of 78.7 cm (2′ 7″)
- North American porcupine with a size of 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Water chevrotain with a size of 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Common duiker with a size of 96.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- Black musk deer with a size of 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Smooth-coated otter with a size of 78.8 cm (2′ 8″)
- Black-fronted duiker with a size of 94.4 cm (3′ 2″)
- Mandrill with a size of 75.8 cm (2′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Gray brocket
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Gray brocket:
- Eisentraut’s shrew
- Guam flying fox
- Northern greater galago
- Macleay’s dorcopsis
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby
- Reeves’s muntjac
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
- Pagai Island macaque
- Roan antelope
- Sambar deer
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Gray brocket
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Gray brocket:
- Gerenuk with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Kodkod with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Common spotted cuscus with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Northern treeshrew with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Pampas fox with an average maximal age of 13.67 years
- Short-tailed chinchilla with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Mountain reedbuck with an average maximal age of 12.25 years
- Bat-eared fox with an average maximal age of 13.75 years
- Sharpe’s grysbok with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Cape grysbok with an average maximal age of 14 years
Animals with the same weight as a Gray brocket
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mazama gouazoupira:
- Four-horned antelope with a weight of 19.19 kilos (42.31 lbs)
- Dhole with a weight of 15.85 kilos (34.94 lbs)
- Harvey’s duiker with a weight of 14.5 kilos (31.97 lbs)
- Red-necked wallaby with a weight of 16.83 kilos (37.1 lbs)
- Clouded leopard with a weight of 15.02 kilos (33.11 lbs)
- African clawless otter with a weight of 19.16 kilos (42.24 lbs)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 13.5 kilos (29.76 lbs)
- Plate-toothed giant hutia with a weight of 13.7 kilos (30.2 lbs)
- Alpine musk deer with a weight of 13.6 kilos (29.98 lbs)
- Klipspringer with a weight of 13.46 kilos (29.67 lbs)