How many baby Java mouse-deers are in a litter?
A Java mouse-deer (Tragulus javanicus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 158 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 15.38 kg (33.91 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Tragulidae family (genus: Tragulus). An adult Java mouse-deer grows up to a size of 51.4 cm (1′ 9″).
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 Java mouse-deer (Tragulus javanicus) is a species of even-toed ungulate in the family Tragulidae. When it reaches maturity it is about the size of a rabbit, making it the smallest living ungulate. It is found in forests in Java and perhaps Bali, although sightings there have not been verified.
Other animals of the family Tragulidae
Java mouse-deer is a member of the Tragulidae, as are these animals:
- Greater mouse-deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Water chevrotain with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Java mouse-deer
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Klipspringer
- Chocolate wattled bat
- Taruca
- Brazilian porcupine
- Goat
- Giant armadillo
- Lion-tailed macaque
- Common noctule
- Urial
- African savanna hare
Animals that get as old as a Java mouse-deer
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12 years:
- Sugar glider with 14 years
- Asian small-clawed otter with 10.08 years
- Small Indian civet with 10.5 years
- Chinese ferret-badger with 10.5 years
- Water deer with 12 years
- Golden hamster with 10 years
- Crab-eating raccoon with 14 years
- Calabar angwantibo with 13 years
- Raccoon dog with 14 years
- Rock cavy with 11 years
Animals with the same weight as a Java mouse-deer
What other animals weight around 1.88 kg (4.14 lbs)?
- Malagasy civet usually reaching 1.86 kgs (4.1 lbs)
- Monk saki usually reaching 2.11 kgs (4.65 lbs)
- Rock-haunting ringtail possum usually reaching 1.88 kgs (4.14 lbs)
- Swift fox usually reaching 2.11 kgs (4.65 lbs)
- Liberian mongoose usually reaching 1.82 kgs (4.01 lbs)
- Cape genet usually reaching 2.07 kgs (4.56 lbs)
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat usually reaching 1.84 kgs (4.06 lbs)
- Rusty-spotted genet usually reaching 1.95 kgs (4.3 lbs)
- Coppery ringtail possum usually reaching 1.77 kgs (3.9 lbs)
- Hainan hare usually reaching 1.52 kgs (3.35 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Java mouse-deer
Also reaching around 51.4 cm (1′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Black capuchin gets as big as 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Pale-throated sloth gets as big as 54.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Aquatic genet gets as big as 45.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey gets as big as 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- African palm civet gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Raccoon dog gets as big as 44.8 cm (1′ 6″)
- Peruvian spider monkey gets as big as 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Cape fox gets as big as 53.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Common spotted cuscus gets as big as 45.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- Egyptian mongoose gets as big as 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)