How many baby Javan rusas are in a litter?
A Javan rusa (Rusa timorensis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 250 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4.67 kg (10.3 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Rusa). An adult Javan rusa grows up to a size of 1.63 meter (5′ 5″).
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 Javan rusa or Sunda sambar (Rusa timorensis) is a deer native to the islands of Indonesia and East Timor. Introduced populations exist in a wide variety of locations in the Southern Hemisphere.
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Javan rusa is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Père David’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Visayan spotted deer weighting around 45.8 kilograms (100.97 lbs)
- White-tailed deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Moose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Water deer with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine deer weighting around 49.1 kilograms (108.25 lbs)
- Pampas deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eld’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Reindeer with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Red deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Javan rusa
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Aye-aye
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose
- Tricolored bat
- Black lemur
- Asian golden cat
- Argali
- Pampas deer
- New Caledonia blossom bat
- Leschenault’s rousette
Animals with the same weight as a Javan rusa
What other animals weight around 66.38 kg (146.33 lbs)?
- Javan rusa usually reaching 65.8 kgs (145.06 lbs)
- Ringed seal usually reaching 70.96 kgs (156.44 lbs)
- South Andean deer usually reaching 69.02 kgs (152.16 lbs)
- Red river hog usually reaching 70 kgs (154.32 lbs)
- East Caucasian tur usually reaching 57.5 kgs (126.77 lbs)
- Grant’s gazelle usually reaching 55.46 kgs (122.27 lbs)
- Caspian seal usually reaching 62.3 kgs (137.35 lbs)
- Desert warthog usually reaching 75.61 kgs (166.69 lbs)
- Celebes warty pig usually reaching 53.46 kgs (117.86 lbs)
- Dama gazelle usually reaching 71.42 kgs (157.45 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Javan rusa
Also reaching around 1.63 meter (5′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Sitatunga gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Australian sea lion gets as big as 1.8 meter (5′ 11″)
- Barasingha gets as big as 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Brown bear gets as big as 1.49 meter (4′ 11″)
- Markhor gets as big as 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
- Barbary sheep gets as big as 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Arctocephalus forsteri gets as big as 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
- Calamian deer gets as big as 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Baiji gets as big as 1.7 meter (5′ 8″)
- Northern fur seal gets as big as 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)