How many baby Javan rusas are in a litter?
A Javan rusa (Cervus 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 4.28 kg (9.44 lbs) and measure 57 cm (1′ 11″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Cervus). 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:
- Roe deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eld’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Javan rusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Barasingha with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gongshan muntjac weighting around 18.45 kilograms (40.68 lbs)
- Thorold’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mérida brocket weighting around 16.5 kilograms (36.38 lbs)
- Thorold’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Reindeer with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pudú with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Javan rusa
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Dusky leaf monkey
- Fea’s muntjac
- Van Gelder’s bat
- Forest giant squirrel
- Hispaniolan hutia
- Unstriped ground squirrel
- West Caucasian tur
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat
- South African springhare
Animals with the same weight as a Javan rusa
What other animals weight around 65.8 kg (145.06 lbs)?
- Australophocaena dioptrica usually reaching 65 kgs (143.3 lbs)
- Homo sapiens usually reaching 58.62 kgs (129.23 lbs)
- Bawean deer usually reaching 55 kgs (121.25 lbs)
- Sitatunga usually reaching 75.28 kgs (165.96 lbs)
- Pantropical spotted dolphin usually reaching 65.72 kgs (144.89 lbs)
- South Andean deer usually reaching 69.02 kgs (152.16 lbs)
- South American fur seal usually reaching 68.14 kgs (150.22 lbs)
- Mountain goat usually reaching 71.84 kgs (158.38 lbs)
- Alpaca usually reaching 64.9 kgs (143.08 lbs)
- Harbour porpoise usually reaching 52.72 kgs (116.23 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Javan rusa
Also reaching around 1.63 meter (5′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Nyala gets as big as 1.94 meter (6′ 5″)
- Harp seal gets as big as 1.73 meter (5′ 9″)
- Pronghorn gets as big as 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)
- Tiger gets as big as 1.83 meter (6′ 0″)
- Harbour porpoise gets as big as 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Ribbon seal gets as big as 1.54 meter (5′ 1″)
- Visayan warty pig gets as big as 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Jaguar gets as big as 1.33 meter (4′ 5″)
- Leopard gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Harp seal gets as big as 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)