How many baby Greater mouse-deers are in a litter?
A Greater mouse-deer (Tragulus napu) 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 154 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 373 grams (0.82 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Tragulidae family (genus: Tragulus). An adult Greater mouse-deer grows up to a size of 56.2 cm (1′ 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 greater mouse-deer, greater Malay chevrotain, or napu (Tragulus napu) is a species of even-toed ungulate in the family Tragulidae found in Sumatra, Borneo, and smaller Malaysian and Indonesian islands, and in southern Myanmar, southern Thailand, and peninsular Malaysia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical, moist, lowland forest.
Other animals of the family Tragulidae
Greater mouse-deer is a member of the Tragulidae, as are these animals:
- Water chevrotain with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Java mouse-deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Greater mouse-deer
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Pennant’s colobus
- Daubenton’s bat
- Parma wallaby
- Okapi
- Marsh deer
- African pygmy squirrel
- Silver fruit-eating bat
- Monjon
- Dwarf sperm whale
- Baiji
Animals that get as old as a Greater mouse-deer
Other animals that usually reach the age of 16.25 years:
- Mountain goat with 19.17 years
- Bongo (antelope) with 19.42 years
- Günther’s dik-dik with 14 years
- Common tsessebe with 18 years
- Bobak marmot with 15 years
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with 13 years
- Silver dik-dik with 14 years
- Arabian tahr with 14 years
- Japanese serow with 18.5 years
- Müeller’s gibbon with 14.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Greater mouse-deer
What other animals weight around 5.25 kg (11.58 lbs)?
- Silvery gibbon usually reaching 5.87 kgs (12.94 lbs)
- Müeller’s gibbon usually reaching 5.92 kgs (13.05 lbs)
- Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth usually reaching 5.7 kgs (12.57 lbs)
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.55 kgs (10.03 lbs)
- Black-spotted cuscus usually reaching 6 kgs (13.23 lbs)
- Greater naked-tailed armadillo usually reaching 5.35 kgs (11.79 lbs)
- Tasmanian pademelon usually reaching 5.85 kgs (12.9 lbs)
- White-cheeked spider monkey usually reaching 6.24 kgs (13.76 lbs)
- Olympic marmot usually reaching 6.3 kgs (13.89 lbs)
- Red panda usually reaching 5.17 kgs (11.4 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Greater mouse-deer
Also reaching around 56.2 cm (1′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Korean hare gets as big as 46.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Raccoon gets as big as 48.6 cm (1′ 8″)
- Hoary fox gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Northern plains gray langur gets as big as 61 cm (2′ 1″)
- Natal red rock hare gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Red-faced spider monkey gets as big as 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- White-tailed jackrabbit gets as big as 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Servaline genet gets as big as 49.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Allen’s swamp monkey gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)