How many baby Pampas deers are in a litter?
A Pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 220 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2.1 kg (4.63 lbs) and measure 77.1 cm (2′ 7″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Ozotoceros). An adult Pampas deer grows up to a size of 1.22 meter (4′ 1″).
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.
Pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus) is a species of Deer that live in the grasslands of South America at low elevations. They are known as venado or gama in Spanish and as veado-campeiro in Portuguese. Their habitat includes water and hills, often with winter drought, and grass that is high enough to cover a standing deer. Many of them live on the Pantanal wetlands, where there are ongoing conservation efforts, and other areas of annual flooding cycles. Human activity has changed much of the original landscape. They are known to live up to 12 years in the wild, longer if captive, but are threatened due to over-hunting and habitat loss. Many people are concerned over this loss, because a healthy deer population means a healthy grassland, and a healthy grassland is home to many species, some also threatened. Many North American birds migrate south to these areas, and if the Pampas deer habitat is lost, they are afraid these bird species will also decline. There are approximately 80,000 Pampas deer total, with the majority of them living in Brazil.
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Pampas deer is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Taruca with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Fea’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Visayan spotted deer weighting around 45.8 kilograms (100.97 lbs)
- Père David’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thorold’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Giant muntjac weighting around 36.69 kilograms (80.89 lbs)
- Little red brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mérida brocket weighting around 16.5 kilograms (36.38 lbs)
- Siberian roe deer with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Pampas deer
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Northern viscacha
- Southern muriqui
- Ollala brothers’s titi
- Felou gundi
- Weasel sportive lemur
- Bharal
- Dent’s vlei rat
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Javan rusa
Animals with the same weight as a Pampas deer
What other animals weight around 34.55 kg (76.16 lbs)?
- Sumatran orangutan usually reaching 39.7 kgs (87.52 lbs)
- Springbok usually reaching 33.39 kgs (73.61 lbs)
- Siberian roe deer usually reaching 41.19 kgs (90.81 lbs)
- Mongolian gazelle usually reaching 28.22 kgs (62.21 lbs)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat usually reaching 31.88 kgs (70.28 lbs)
- La Plata dolphin usually reaching 40.5 kgs (89.29 lbs)
- Giant anteater usually reaching 28.72 kgs (63.32 lbs)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle usually reaching 41 kgs (90.39 lbs)
- Pyrenean chamois usually reaching 30 kgs (66.14 lbs)
- Bonobo usually reaching 35.15 kgs (77.49 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Pampas deer
Also reaching around 1.22 meter (4′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Proserpine rock-wallaby gets as big as 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Saiga antelope gets as big as 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Calamian deer gets as big as 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Giant panda gets as big as 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Bohor reedbuck gets as big as 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Iberian ibex gets as big as 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- White-lipped peccary gets as big as 1.11 meter (3′ 8″)
- Springbok gets as big as 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis gets as big as 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Indian muntjac gets as big as 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)