How many baby Pudús are in a litter?
A Pudú (Pudu puda) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 210 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 780 grams (1.72 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:
- Eld’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Fea’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Siberian roe deer with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine deer weighting around 49.1 kilograms (108.25 lbs)
- Bornean yellow muntjac weighting around 18.87 kilograms (41.6 lbs)
- Indian hog deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mérida brocket weighting around 16.5 kilograms (36.38 lbs)
- Thorold’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mule deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Schomburgk’s deer weighting around 107.63 kilograms (237.28 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Pudú
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Melck’s house bat
- Drill (animal)
- Raffray’s bandicoot
- African brush-tailed porcupine
- Hoolock gibbon
- Narrow-striped mongoose
- Nyala
- Mantled guereza
- Dwarf hutia
- Little forest bat
Animals that get as old as a Pudú
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12.5 years:
- Mexican free-tailed bat with 15 years
- Parma wallaby with 10 years
- Silver-haired bat with 12 years
- Groundhog with 10 years
- Capybara with 12 years
- Royal antelope with 14 years
- Arabian tahr with 14 years
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with 12 years
- Steenbok with 14 years
- Golden hamster with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Pudú
What other animals weight around 9.61 kg (21.18 lbs)?
- Black-shanked douc usually reaching 10.33 kgs (22.77 lbs)
- Patagonian mara usually reaching 8.03 kgs (17.7 lbs)
- Black-striped wallaby usually reaching 11.23 kgs (24.76 lbs)
- Pygmy hog usually reaching 7.92 kgs (17.46 lbs)
- Cape grysbok usually reaching 10.47 kgs (23.08 lbs)
- Patas monkey usually reaching 7.99 kgs (17.61 lbs)
- Smooth-coated otter usually reaching 8.96 kgs (19.75 lbs)
- Red-shanked douc usually reaching 9.48 kgs (20.9 lbs)
- Tenkile usually reaching 9.98 kgs (22 lbs)
- Dingiso usually reaching 9.4 kgs (20.72 lbs)