How many baby Reeves’s muntjacs are in a litter?
A Reeves’s muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 214 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1.05 kg (2.31 lbs) and measure 9.9 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Muntiacus). An adult Reeves’s muntjac grows up to a size of 99.5 cm (3′ 4″).
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.
Reeves’s muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi; Chinese: 山羌), also known as the Chinese muntjac, is a muntjac species found widely in southeastern China (from Gansu to Yunnan) and Taiwan. It has also been introduced in Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom (south England, the Midlands, east Wales), Ireland, and Japan. It takes its name from John Reeves, an employee of the British East India Company in the 19th century.
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Reeves’s muntjac is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Schomburgk’s deer weighting around 107.63 kilograms (237.28 lbs)
- Mule deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pudú with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Javan rusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thorold’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eld’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy brocket weighting around 16.5 kilograms (36.38 lbs)
- Reindeer with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Mérida brocket weighting around 16.5 kilograms (36.38 lbs)
- Pudú with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Reeves’s muntjac
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat
- Western long-tongued bat
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel
- Black-capped squirrel monkey
- Harp seal
- Riverine rabbit
- Micronycteris nicefori
- Salt’s dik-dik
- Iberian ibex
- Bald uakari
Animals with the same weight as a Reeves’s muntjac
What other animals weight around 13.5 kg (29.76 lbs)?
- Iberian lynx usually reaching 11.08 kgs (24.43 lbs)
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo usually reaching 12.61 kgs (27.8 lbs)
- Dorcas gazelle usually reaching 15.57 kgs (34.33 lbs)
- Siamang usually reaching 10.84 kgs (23.9 lbs)
- Indian crested porcupine usually reaching 14.3 kgs (31.53 lbs)
- Serval usually reaching 11.9 kgs (26.23 lbs)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 13.46 kgs (29.67 lbs)
- Hamadryas baboon usually reaching 14.97 kgs (33 lbs)
- Clouded leopard usually reaching 15.02 kgs (33.11 lbs)
- Ground pangolin usually reaching 11.92 kgs (26.28 lbs)