How many baby Mule deers are in a litter?
A Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 203 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3.01 kg (6.63 lbs) and measure 5.7 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Odocoileus). An adult Mule deer grows up to a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″).
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 mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) is a deer indigenous to western North America; it is named for its ears, which are large like those of the mule. The several subspecies include the black-tailed deer.Unlike the related white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), which is found through most of North America east of the Rocky Mountains and in the valleys of the Rocky Mountains from Idaho and Wyoming northward, mule deer are only found on the western Great Plains, in the Rocky Mountains, in the United States southwest, and on the West Coast of North America. Mule deer have also been introduced to Argentina and Kauai, Hawaii.
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Mule deer is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Philippine deer weighting around 49.1 kilograms (108.25 lbs)
- Moose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eld’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chital with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Taruca with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pudú with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Roe deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Père David’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dwarf brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thorold’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mule deer
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Caspian seal
- Burchell’s zebra
- Harnessed bushbuck
- Hispaniolan solenodon
- Cape elephant shrew
- Ollala brothers’s titi
- Striped possum
- Pygmy ringtail possum
- Silver dik-dik
- Marsh deer
Animals that get as old as a Mule deer
Other animals that usually reach the age of 22 years:
- African palm civet with 18.5 years
- Grévy’s zebra with 26 years
- Indian hog deer with 20 years
- Chital with 20.75 years
- Bahamian raccoon with 21 years
- Antarctic fur seal with 23 years
- Bongo (antelope) with 19.42 years
- Kob with 21.92 years
- Potto with 26 years
- Gayal with 26.17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Mule deer
What other animals weight around 84.31 kg (185.86 lbs)?
- Commerson’s dolphin usually reaching 72.4 kgs (159.61 lbs)
- Ringed seal usually reaching 70.96 kgs (156.44 lbs)
- Jentink’s duiker usually reaching 68 kgs (149.91 lbs)
- Lechwe usually reaching 88.02 kgs (194.05 lbs)
- Asian black bear usually reaching 99.81 kgs (220.04 lbs)
- Hirola usually reaching 79.13 kgs (174.45 lbs)
- Hirola usually reaching 78.6 kgs (173.28 lbs)
- South American fur seal usually reaching 68.14 kgs (150.22 lbs)
- Snow sheep usually reaching 90 kgs (198.42 lbs)
- Desert warthog usually reaching 75.61 kgs (166.69 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Mule deer
Also reaching around 1.52 meter (5′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Marsh deer gets as big as 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Wild boar gets as big as 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Javan rusa gets as big as 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Antarctic fur seal gets as big as 1.57 meter (5′ 2″)
- Pronghorn gets as big as 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)
- Kob gets as big as 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Red river hog gets as big as 1.37 meter (4′ 6″)
- Siberian roe deer gets as big as 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
- American black bear gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Grant’s gazelle gets as big as 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)