How many baby Fea’s muntjacs are in a litter?
A Fea’s muntjac (Muntiacus feae) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 195 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 49 grams (0.11 lbs) and measure 9.9 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Muntiacus). An adult Fea’s muntjac grows up to a size of 31.2 cm (1′ 1″).
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 Fea’s muntjac or Tenasserim muntjac (Muntiacus feae) is a rare species of muntjac native to southern Myanmar and Thailand. It is a similar size to the common muntjac (adult weight is 18 – 21 kg (40 – 46 lb)).It is diurnal and solitary, inhabiting upland evergreen, mixed or shrub forest (at an altitude of 2500 m (8200′)) with a diet of grasses, low-growing leaves, and tender shoots.The young are usually born in dense vegetation, remaining hidden until able to travel with the mother.It is named after zoologist Leonardo Fea. Its other name comes from the Tenasserim Hills, between Burma and Thailand.
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Fea’s muntjac is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Tufted deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Reeves’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pudú with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pudú with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Père David’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bawean deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Calamian deer with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy brocket weighting around 16.5 kilograms (36.38 lbs)
- Reindeer with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Fea’s muntjac
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Usambara shrew
- Okapi
- Fox’s shrew
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
- Quokka
- Beluga whale
- Tapeti
- Coppery titi
- Phayre’s leaf monkey
- Narrow-striped mongoose
Animals with the same weight as a Fea’s muntjac
What other animals weight around 19.9 kg (43.87 lbs)?
- Gongshan muntjac usually reaching 18.45 kgs (40.68 lbs)
- Chinkara usually reaching 18.91 kgs (41.69 lbs)
- Peters’s duiker usually reaching 18.94 kgs (41.76 lbs)
- Lesser capybara usually reaching 21.27 kgs (46.89 lbs)
- Tufted deer usually reaching 23.04 kgs (50.79 lbs)
- African clawless otter usually reaching 19.16 kgs (42.24 lbs)
- African wild dog usually reaching 22 kgs (48.5 lbs)
- Goa (antelope) usually reaching 23.13 kgs (50.99 lbs)
- Oribi usually reaching 17.16 kgs (37.83 lbs)
- Arabian gazelle usually reaching 18.06 kgs (39.82 lbs)