How many baby Calamian deers are in a litter?
A Calamian deer (Axis calamianensis) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 224 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 Calamian deer grows up to a size of 1.39 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 Calamian deer (Hyelaphus calamianensis), also known as Calamian hog deer, is an endangered species of deer found only in the Calamian Islands of Palawan province of the Philippines. It is one of three species of deer native to the Philippines, the other being the Philippine sambar (Cervus mariannus), and Visayan spotted deer (Cervus alfredi).
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Calamian deer is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Indian muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mule deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bornean yellow muntjac weighting around 18.87 kilograms (41.6 lbs)
- Javan rusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eld’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pudú with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gongshan muntjac weighting around 18.45 kilograms (40.68 lbs)
- Pygmy brocket weighting around 16.5 kilograms (36.38 lbs)
- Fallow deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Indian hog deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Calamian deer
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- African golden cat
- True’s vole
- White-sided jackrabbit
- Brown deer mouse
- Pronghorn
- Angoni vlei rat
- Balkan snow vole
- Common treeshrew
- Tawny deer mouse
- Red hocicudo
Animals with the same weight as a Calamian deer
What other animals weight around 39.66 kg (87.43 lbs)?
- Vaquita usually reaching 43.11 kgs (95.04 lbs)
- Sumatran orangutan usually reaching 39.7 kgs (87.52 lbs)
- Chacoan peccary usually reaching 35.38 kgs (78 lbs)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle usually reaching 41 kgs (90.39 lbs)
- Goat usually reaching 47.14 kgs (103.93 lbs)
- Brown hyena usually reaching 42.98 kgs (94.75 lbs)
- Vicuña usually reaching 47.5 kgs (104.72 lbs)
- Japanese serow usually reaching 42.6 kgs (93.92 lbs)
- Tucuxi usually reaching 42.82 kgs (94.4 lbs)
- Indian hog deer usually reaching 37.27 kgs (82.17 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Calamian deer
Also reaching around 1.39 meter (4′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Harbour porpoise gets as big as 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Barasingha gets as big as 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Blackbuck gets as big as 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Common warthog gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- American black bear gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Nilgiri tahr gets as big as 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Eld’s deer gets as big as 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Anoa gets as big as 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Bohor reedbuck gets as big as 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Mule deer gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)