How many baby Dwarf musk deers are in a litter?
A Dwarf musk deer (Moschus berezovskii) 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 184 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 530 grams (1.17 lbs) and measure 2.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Moschidae family (genus: Moschus). An adult Dwarf musk deer grows up to a size of 90 cm (3′ 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 dwarf musk deer or Chinese forest musk deer (Moschus berezovskii, Chinese: 林麝; pinyin: Lín shè) is an artiodactyl native to southern and central China and northernmost Vietnam. On June 14, 1976, China entered the dwarf musk deer onto its endangered species list. Four subspecies are recognized:M. b. berezovskiiM. b. bijiangensisM. b. caobangisM. b. yanguiensis
Other animals of the family Moschidae
Dwarf musk deer is a member of the Moschidae, as are these animals:
- Black musk deer weighting around 13.6 kilograms (29.98 lbs)
- Siberian musk deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Alpine musk deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Dwarf musk deer
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Red goral
- Cave nectar bat
- Egyptian fruit bat
- Dwarf sperm whale
- Kloss’s gibbon
- Plush-coated ringtail possum
- Red-tailed squirrel
- Black lemur
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo
- Harbor seal
Animals with the same weight as a Dwarf musk deer
What other animals weight around 12.39 kg (27.31 lbs)?
- Pacarana usually reaching 12.5 kgs (27.56 lbs)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 13.46 kgs (29.67 lbs)
- Klipspringer usually reaching 13.46 kgs (29.67 lbs)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 12.27 kgs (27.05 lbs)
- Pennant’s colobus usually reaching 10.9 kgs (24.03 lbs)
- Crested porcupine usually reaching 13.4 kgs (29.54 lbs)
- Side-striped jackal usually reaching 10.4 kgs (22.93 lbs)
- Beira (antelope) usually reaching 10.91 kgs (24.05 lbs)
- Nilgiri langur usually reaching 10.6 kgs (23.37 lbs)
- Whiptail wallaby usually reaching 12.67 kgs (27.93 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Dwarf musk deer
Also reaching around 90 cm (3′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Common wombat gets as big as 98.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- Red forest duiker gets as big as 78.7 cm (2′ 7″)
- Caracal gets as big as 74.1 cm (2′ 6″)
- Smooth-coated otter gets as big as 78.8 cm (2′ 8″)
- Speke’s gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Ethiopian wolf gets as big as 94.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- White-bellied duiker gets as big as 94 cm (3′ 2″)
- Peters’s duiker gets as big as 1.02 meter (3′ 4″)
- Black musk deer gets as big as 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Siamang gets as big as 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)