How many baby Indian hog deers are in a litter?
A Indian hog deer (Axis porcinus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 220 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2.48 kg (5.47 lbs) and measure 9 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Axis). An adult Indian hog deer grows up to a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 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 Indian hog deer (Hyelaphus porcinus) is a small deer whose habitat ranges from Pakistan, through northern India, to mainland southeast Asia, which inhabits much of the Indo-Gangetic Plains of Pakistan, northern India, Nepal, Bangladesh, southwestern Yunnan Province in China, all the way to western Thailand. Introduced populations also exist in Australia and Sri Lanka.It gets its name from the hog-like manner in which it runs through the forests with its head hung low so that it can duck under obstacles instead of leaping over them like most other deer. Cover is taken as soon as it is feasible. During flight, the tail is held erect, showing the white underside.
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Indian hog deer is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Roe deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine deer weighting around 49.1 kilograms (108.25 lbs)
- Javan rusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mérida brocket weighting around 16.5 kilograms (36.38 lbs)
- Mule deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pudú with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pampas deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Schomburgk’s deer weighting around 107.63 kilograms (237.28 lbs)
- Roosevelt’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Schomburgk’s deer weighting around 106 kilograms (233.69 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Indian hog deer
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Long-footed potoroo
- Lowland paca
- Gray brocket
- Malagasy civet
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat
- Kloss’s gibbon
- Midas free-tailed bat
- Pale spear-nosed bat
- Schneider’s leaf-nosed bat
Animals that get as old as a Indian hog deer
Other animals that usually reach the age of 20 years:
- Allen’s swamp monkey with 23 years
- Western grey kangaroo with 20 years
- Barbary sheep with 21 years
- South American coati with 17.67 years
- Nubian ibex with 17 years
- Cheetah with 19 years
- Nilgiri tahr with 17.25 years
- Desert warthog with 18.75 years
- White-tailed deer with 23 years
- Pygmy sperm whale with 17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Indian hog deer
What other animals weight around 37.27 kg (82.18 lbs)?
- Thylacine usually reaching 30 kgs (66.14 lbs)
- Gerenuk usually reaching 38.65 kgs (85.21 lbs)
- Japanese serow usually reaching 42.6 kgs (93.92 lbs)
- Chacoan peccary usually reaching 35.38 kgs (78 lbs)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle usually reaching 41 kgs (90.39 lbs)
- Tucuxi usually reaching 42.82 kgs (94.4 lbs)
- Chamois usually reaching 33.11 kgs (72.99 lbs)
- Wolf usually reaching 33.38 kgs (73.59 lbs)
- Finless porpoise usually reaching 32.5 kgs (71.65 lbs)
- Calamian deer usually reaching 39.66 kgs (87.44 lbs)