How many baby Dwarf brockets are in a litter?
A Dwarf brocket (Mazama chunyi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 243 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Mazama). An adult Dwarf brocket grows up to a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 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 dwarf brocket (Mazama chunyi), or chunyi, is a small species of deer native to the Andean highlands in western Bolivia and southeastern Peru, where it is found in forest and páramo. Its pelage is reddish-brown with dark grey foreparts and neck. The underparts are lighter brown, and the muzzle short and thick. It weighs around 11 kg.A little-studied species of brocket deer, the IUCN considers the dwarf brocket as Vulnerable. Research has occurred in the forests of Bolivia, expanding known localities and modelling geographic distribution; while as much as 40% of the habitat was degraded or fragmented, the rest showed good conservation. This led to the recommendation of treating it as Vulnerable.
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Dwarf brocket is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Fea’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chital with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gongshan muntjac weighting around 18.45 kilograms (40.68 lbs)
- Marsh deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine deer weighting around 49.1 kilograms (108.25 lbs)
- Pudú with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pudú with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eld’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Roosevelt’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bawean deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Dwarf brocket
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Little red flying fox
- Walia ibex
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat
- Llama
- Northern elephant seal
- Rufous rat-kangaroo
- Tibetan macaque
- Desert long-eared bat
- Pygmy treeshrew
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat
Animals with the same weight as a Dwarf brocket
What other animals weight around 16.04 kg (35.35 lbs)?
- Swamp wallaby usually reaching 15 kgs (33.07 lbs)
- Bornean yellow muntjac usually reaching 18.87 kgs (41.6 lbs)
- Indian crested porcupine usually reaching 14.3 kgs (31.53 lbs)
- Chacma baboon usually reaching 17.73 kgs (39.09 lbs)
- Gray brocket usually reaching 16.4 kgs (36.16 lbs)
- Harvey’s duiker usually reaching 14.5 kgs (31.97 lbs)
- Alpine musk deer usually reaching 13.6 kgs (29.98 lbs)
- Siberian musk deer usually reaching 13.31 kgs (29.34 lbs)
- Zebra duiker usually reaching 15.53 kgs (34.24 lbs)
- Gongshan muntjac usually reaching 18.45 kgs (40.68 lbs)