How many baby Bawean deers are in a litter?
A Bawean deer (Axis kuhlii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 227 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3.16 kg (6.96 lbs) and measure 9 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Axis). An adult Bawean deer grows up to a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″).
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 Bawean deer (Hyelaphus kuhlii), also known as Kuhl’s hog deer or Bawean hog deer, is a highly threatened species of deer found only in the island of Bawean (Gresik Regency) in Indonesia.A typical height for males of 60–70 cm has been reported. Males have three-tined antlers.Their fawns are spotted at birth, which separates them from the best known western population of the hog deer (H. porcinus).Due to ongoing habitat loss, small population size and limited range, the Bawean deer is evaluated as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix I of CITES. It has few natural enemies except for birds of prey and large snakes such as pythons.
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Bawean deer is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Moose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Javan rusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sambar deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine deer weighting around 49.46 kilograms (109.04 lbs)
- Reeves’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thorold’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Schomburgk’s deer weighting around 107.63 kilograms (237.28 lbs)
- Fallow deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eld’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Roosevelt’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bawean deer
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Tasmanian pademelon
- Pacarana
- Hippopotamus
- Drill (animal)
- White-throated guenon
- Toque macaque
- Black-rumped agouti
- Red-tailed monkey
- Barasingha
- Oecomys concolor
Animals with the same weight as a Bawean deer
What other animals weight around 55 kg (121.25 lbs)?
- Homo sapiens usually reaching 58.62 kgs (129.23 lbs)
- Spinner dolphin usually reaching 50.5 kgs (111.33 lbs)
- Vicuña usually reaching 47.5 kgs (104.72 lbs)
- Markhor usually reaching 53.95 kgs (118.94 lbs)
- Capybara usually reaching 47.5 kgs (104.72 lbs)
- Visayan spotted deer usually reaching 45.8 kgs (100.97 lbs)
- Philippine deer usually reaching 49.1 kgs (108.25 lbs)
- Yellow-backed duiker usually reaching 61.65 kgs (135.91 lbs)
- Abbott’s duiker usually reaching 56.68 kgs (124.96 lbs)
- Cheetah usually reaching 50.54 kgs (111.42 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Bawean deer
Also reaching around 1.38 meter (4′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Guanaco gets as big as 1.47 meter (4′ 11″)
- Nilgiri tahr gets as big as 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Pampas deer gets as big as 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Markhor gets as big as 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
- Taruca gets as big as 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)
- Hirola gets as big as 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Baikal seal gets as big as 1.27 meter (4′ 3″)
- Mountain reedbuck gets as big as 1.23 meter (4′ 1″)
- White-tailed deer gets as big as 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- American black bear gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)