How many baby Roe deers are in a litter?
A Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 179 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1.21 kg (2.67 lbs) and measure 37.5 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Capreolus). An adult Roe deer grows up to a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 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 European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), also known as the western roe deer, chevreuil, or simply roe deer or roe, is a species of deer. The male of the species is sometimes referred to as a roebuck. The roe deer is relatively small, reddish and grey-brown, and well-adapted to cold environments. The species is widespread in Europe, from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia, from Scotland to the Caucasus, and east to northern Iran and Iraq. It is distinct from the somewhat larger Siberian roe deer.
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Roe deer is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Gongshan muntjac weighting around 18.45 kilograms (40.68 lbs)
- Little red brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pudú with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thorold’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chital with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eld’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mérida brocket weighting around 16.5 kilograms (36.38 lbs)
- Red deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- South Andean deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Roe deer
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Nyala
- Painted ringtail possum
- Black wallaroo
- Mexican long-tongued bat
- Pale spear-nosed bat
- Indian flying fox
- Common bottlenose dolphin
- Mentawai langur
- Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat
- Harp seal
Animals that get as old as a Roe deer
Other animals that usually reach the age of 17 years:
- Harbour porpoise with 15 years
- Giant forest hog with 18 years
- European rabbit with 18 years
- Yellow-bellied glider with 16 years
- Chinese goral with 17.25 years
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with 20 years
- Weyns’s duiker with 15.25 years
- Giant armadillo with 15 years
- Silvery marmoset with 16.75 years
- Brazilian porcupine with 17.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Roe deer
What other animals weight around 22.45 kg (49.5 lbs)?
- Eurasian beaver usually reaching 19 kgs (41.89 lbs)
- Thomson’s gazelle usually reaching 22.91 kgs (50.51 lbs)
- Peters’s duiker usually reaching 18.94 kgs (41.76 lbs)
- North American beaver usually reaching 18.11 kgs (39.93 lbs)
- Fea’s muntjac usually reaching 19.9 kgs (43.87 lbs)
- Speke’s gazelle usually reaching 20 kgs (44.09 lbs)
- Bay duiker usually reaching 20 kgs (44.09 lbs)
- Guinea baboon usually reaching 18.03 kgs (39.75 lbs)
- Eurasian lynx usually reaching 19.3 kgs (42.55 lbs)
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat usually reaching 26.18 kgs (57.72 lbs)