How many baby Barasinghas are in a litter?
A Barasingha (Rucervus duvaucelii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 245 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 12 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Rucervus). An adult Barasingha grows up to a size of 1.5 meter (5′ 0″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The barasingha (Rucervus duvaucelii), also called swamp deer, is a deer species distributed in the Indian subcontinent. Populations in northern and central India are fragmented, and two isolated populations occur in southwestern Nepal. It is extinct in Pakistan and Bangladesh.The specific name commemorates the French naturalist Alfred Duvaucel.The swamp deer differs from all other Indian deer species in that the antlers carry more than three tines. Because of this distinctive character it is designated bārah-singgā, meaning “twelve-horned” in Hindustani. Mature stags usually have 10 to 14 tines, and some have been known to have up to 20.In Assamese, barasingha is called dolhorina; dol meaning swamp.
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Barasingha is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Sika deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tufted deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mérida brocket weighting around 16.5 kilograms (36.38 lbs)
- Red deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dwarf brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thorold’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Roe deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Reindeer with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Eld’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Père David’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Barasingha
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- African savanna hare
- Zempoaltepec deer mouse
- Large slit-faced bat
- Purple-faced langur
- Mongalla free-tailed bat
- Harp seal
- Celebes crested macaque
- Common eland
- Northern elephant seal
- Golden snub-nosed monkey
Animals with the same weight as a Barasingha
What other animals weight around 171.22 kg (377.48 lbs)?
- Lion usually reaching 158.75 kgs (349.98 lbs)
- Eastern gorilla usually reaching 149.33 kgs (329.22 lbs)
- Waterbuck usually reaching 203.2 kgs (447.98 lbs)
- Bluebuck usually reaching 150 kgs (330.69 lbs)
- Red hartebeest usually reaching 176.12 kgs (388.28 lbs)
- Striped dolphin usually reaching 142.05 kgs (313.17 lbs)
- Hartebeest usually reaching 162.47 kgs (358.18 lbs)
- South American sea lion usually reaching 194 kgs (427.7 lbs)
- White-beaked dolphin usually reaching 186.82 kgs (411.87 lbs)
- Brown bear usually reaching 196.14 kgs (432.41 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Barasingha
Also reaching around 1.5 meter (5′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Antarctic fur seal gets as big as 1.57 meter (5′ 2″)
- Common tsessebe gets as big as 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Baikal seal gets as big as 1.28 meter (4′ 3″)
- Southern reedbuck gets as big as 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Kob gets as big as 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Anoa gets as big as 1.73 meter (5′ 9″)
- Ringed seal gets as big as 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
- Sun bear gets as big as 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Saola gets as big as 1.75 meter (5′ 9″)
- Markhor gets as big as 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)