How many baby Chitals are in a litter?
A Chital (Axis axis) usually gives birth to around 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 Chital grows up to a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″).
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 chital () (Axis axis), also known as spotted deer, chital deer, and axis deer, is a species of deer that is native in the Indian subcontinent. The species was first described by German naturalist Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben in 1777. A moderate-sized deer, male chital reach nearly 90 cm (35 in) and females 70 cm (28 in) at the shoulder. While males weigh 30–75 kg (66–165 lb), the lighter females weigh 25–45 kg (55–99 lb). The species is sexually dimorphic; males are larger than females, and antlers are present only on males. The upper parts are golden to rufous, completely covered in white spots. The abdomen, rump, throat, insides of legs, ears, and tail are all white. The antlers, three-pronged, are nearly 1 m (3.3 ft) long.
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Chital is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Indian muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Javan rusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sambar deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Moose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Indian hog deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dwarf brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Little red brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eld’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Roe deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Chital
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Black-tailed hutia
- Rhim gazelle
- Formosan rock macaque
- Takin
- Egyptian free-tailed bat
- Common sheath-tailed bat
- Nabarlek
- Indian flying fox
- Klipspringer
- Baikal seal
Animals that get as old as a Chital
Other animals that usually reach the age of 20.75 years:
- Brown hyena with 17 years
- False killer whale with 22 years
- Western grey kangaroo with 20 years
- Mule deer with 22 years
- Red-rumped agouti with 17.75 years
- Impala with 17.75 years
- Collared peccary with 24.42 years
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo with 20 years
- Egyptian mongoose with 20 years
- Golden-backed uakari with 18 years
Animals with the same weight as a Chital
What other animals weight around 69.5 kg (153.22 lbs)?
- Yellow-backed duiker usually reaching 61.65 kgs (135.91 lbs)
- Dama gazelle usually reaching 70.4 kgs (155.21 lbs)
- White-tailed deer usually reaching 75.6 kgs (166.67 lbs)
- Hirola usually reaching 78.6 kgs (173.28 lbs)
- Taruca usually reaching 68.6 kgs (151.24 lbs)
- Bighorn sheep usually reaching 74.63 kgs (164.53 lbs)
- Spotted hyena usually reaching 63.69 kgs (140.41 lbs)
- Desert warthog usually reaching 75.61 kgs (166.69 lbs)
- Ringed seal usually reaching 71.1 kgs (156.75 lbs)
- Hirola usually reaching 79.13 kgs (174.45 lbs)