How many baby Pudús are in a litter?
A Pudú (Pudu mephistophiles) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 400 grams (0.88 lbs) and measure 15 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Pudu). An adult Pudú grows up to a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″).
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 pudús (Mapudungun püdü or püdu, Spanish: pudú, Spanish pronunciation: [puˈðu]) are two species of South American deer from the genus Pudu, and are the world’s smallest deer. The name is a loanword from Mapudungun, the language of the indigenous Mapuche people of central Chile and south-western Argentina. The two species of pudús are the northern pudú (Pudu mephistophiles) from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, and the southern pudú (Pudu puda; sometimes incorrectly modified to Pudu pudu) from southern Chile and south-western Argentina. Pudús range in size from 32 to 44 centimeters (13 to 17 in) tall, and up to 85 centimeters (33 in) long. The southern pudu is currently classified as near threatened, while the northern pudu is classified as Data Deficient in the IUCN Red List.
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Pudú is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Hairy-fronted muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Indian muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- South Andean deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mérida brocket weighting around 16.5 kilograms (36.38 lbs)
- Philippine deer weighting around 49.46 kilograms (109.04 lbs)
- Sambar deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tufted deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Barasingha with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gongshan muntjac weighting around 18.45 kilograms (40.68 lbs)
- Chital with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Pudú
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Brown-mantled tamarin
- Sheep
- Long-footed treeshrew
- Unstriped ground squirrel
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat
- Long-footed potoroo
- Thomas’s rope squirrel
- Mohol bushbaby
- Dusky leaf-nosed bat
- Toolache wallaby
Animals that get as old as a Pudú
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10 years:
- Arabian gazelle with 11.25 years
- Tasmanian pademelon with 10 years
- Asian small-clawed otter with 10.08 years
- Red-flanked duiker with 9.5 years
- Red acouchi with 10 years
- Sarcophilus laniarius with 8.17 years
- Long-footed treeshrew with 12 years
- Cave myotis with 11.25 years
- Central American agouti with 10 years
- Lesser long-nosed bat with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Pudú
What other animals weight around 9.6 kg (21.16 lbs)?
- Western brush wallaby usually reaching 8 kgs (17.64 lbs)
- East Javan langur usually reaching 9.72 kgs (21.43 lbs)
- Patagonian mara usually reaching 8.03 kgs (17.7 lbs)
- Siamang usually reaching 10.9 kgs (24.03 lbs)
- Black-shanked douc usually reaching 10.33 kgs (22.77 lbs)
- Tenkile usually reaching 9.98 kgs (22 lbs)
- Aders’s duiker usually reaching 9.25 kgs (20.39 lbs)
- Culpeo usually reaching 8.62 kgs (19 lbs)
- Black colobus usually reaching 9.1 kgs (20.06 lbs)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 9.09 kgs (20.04 lbs)