How many baby Fallow deers are in a litter?
A Fallow deer (Dama dama) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 230 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4.69 kg (10.35 lbs) and measure 62.1 cm (2′ 1″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Dama). An adult Fallow deer grows up to a size of 25.5 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 fallow deer (Dama dama) is a ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae. This common species is native to Europe, but has been introduced to Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, South Africa, Fernando Pó, São Tomé, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mayotte, Réunion, Seychelles, Comoro Islands, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Cyprus, Israel, Cape Verde, Lebanon, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, the Falkland Islands, and Peru. Some taxonomers include the rarer Persian fallow deer as a subspecies (D. d. mesopotamica), while others treat it as a different species (D. mesopotamica).
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Fallow deer is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Dwarf brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine deer weighting around 49.46 kilograms (109.04 lbs)
- Moose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- South Andean deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Visayan spotted deer weighting around 46.48 kilograms (102.47 lbs)
- Chital with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Indian muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Javan rusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Père David’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Fallow deer
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Black-tailed hutia
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat
- Mentawai langur
- Lesser sheath-tailed bat
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo
- Tufted pygmy squirrel
- Striped possum
- Admiralty Island cuscus
- Sumatran rhinoceros
- Short-footed Luzon tree rat
Animals that get as old as a Fallow deer
Other animals that usually reach the age of 25 years:
- Black crested mangabey with 26.75 years
- Barbary sheep with 21 years
- Cotton-top tamarin with 23.08 years
- Malayan tapir with 30 years
- Western grey kangaroo with 20 years
- Crested mona monkey with 24.08 years
- Eurasian beaver with 25 years
- South American sea lion with 24.75 years
- East African oryx with 20 years
- Sambar deer with 26.42 years
Animals with the same weight as a Fallow deer
What other animals weight around 56.71 kg (125.03 lbs)?
- Philippine deer usually reaching 49.46 kgs (109.04 lbs)
- Vicuña usually reaching 47.5 kgs (104.72 lbs)
- Bawean deer usually reaching 55 kgs (121.25 lbs)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle usually reaching 48.5 kgs (106.92 lbs)
- Iberian ibex usually reaching 60.55 kgs (133.49 lbs)
- West Caucasian tur usually reaching 60.73 kgs (133.89 lbs)
- Javan rusa usually reaching 66.38 kgs (146.34 lbs)
- Pronghorn usually reaching 47.18 kgs (104.01 lbs)
- Javan rusa usually reaching 65.8 kgs (145.06 lbs)
- Pantropical spotted dolphin usually reaching 65.72 kgs (144.89 lbs)