How many baby Indian muntjacs are in a litter?
A Indian muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 210 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1.37 kg (3.02 lbs) and measure 9.9 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Muntiacus). An adult Indian muntjac grows up to a size of 99.5 cm (3′ 4″).
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 muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak), also called the southern red muntjac and barking deer, is a deer species native to South and Southeast Asia. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.This muntjac has soft, short, brownish or greyish hair, sometimes with creamy markings. It is among the smallest deer species. It is an omnivore and eats grass, fruit, shoots, seeds, bird eggs, and small animals, and occasionally scavenges on carrion. Its calls sound like barking, often when frightened by a predator, hence the common name “barking deer”. Males have canines, short antlers that usually branch just once near the base, and a large postorbital scent gland used to mark territories.
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Indian muntjac is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Bawean deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sika deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Calamian deer with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Schomburgk’s deer weighting around 106 kilograms (233.69 lbs)
- Gray brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Visayan spotted deer weighting around 46.48 kilograms (102.47 lbs)
- Mérida brocket weighting around 16.5 kilograms (36.38 lbs)
- Javan rusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-tailed deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Indian muntjac
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Large mosaic-tailed rat
- Whiskered bat
- Macleay’s dorcopsis
- Wolf’s mona monkey
- Moonrat
- Guinea baboon
- Nabarlek
- Spotted bat
- Proboscis monkey
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum
Animals that get as old as a Indian muntjac
Other animals that usually reach the age of 17.58 years:
- Cattle with 20 years
- Nabarlek with 17 years
- Yellow mongoose with 15.17 years
- Black wildebeest with 20 years
- Gray-bellied night monkey with 18 years
- Bobak marmot with 15 years
- Fringed myotis with 18.25 years
- Red-necked wallaby with 19 years
- Nine-banded armadillo with 15 years
- Scimitar oryx with 20.42 years
Animals with the same weight as a Indian muntjac
What other animals weight around 17.51 kg (38.59 lbs)?
- Gelada usually reaching 15.98 kgs (35.23 lbs)
- Yellow baboon usually reaching 15.82 kgs (34.88 lbs)
- Chinkara usually reaching 18.91 kgs (41.69 lbs)
- Gray brocket usually reaching 16.63 kgs (36.66 lbs)
- Black-fronted duiker usually reaching 14.44 kgs (31.83 lbs)
- Gray brocket usually reaching 16.4 kgs (36.16 lbs)
- Zebra duiker usually reaching 15.53 kgs (34.24 lbs)
- Eurasian lynx usually reaching 19.3 kgs (42.55 lbs)
- Peters’s duiker usually reaching 18.94 kgs (41.76 lbs)
- Ogilby’s duiker usually reaching 18.29 kgs (40.32 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Indian muntjac
Also reaching around 99.5 cm (3′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Rhim gazelle gets as big as 1.03 meter (3′ 5″)
- Bornean yellow muntjac gets as big as 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Eastern grey kangaroo gets as big as 87.7 cm (2′ 11″)
- White-lipped peccary gets as big as 1.11 meter (3′ 8″)
- Siamang gets as big as 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Maxwell’s duiker gets as big as 84.6 cm (2′ 10″)
- Springbok gets as big as 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- North American porcupine gets as big as 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Large Indian civet gets as big as 81.9 cm (2′ 9″)
- Chimpanzee gets as big as 79.6 cm (2′ 8″)