How many baby Sambar deers are in a litter?
A Sambar deer (Cervus unicolor) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 246 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 10.3 kg (22.71 lbs) and measure 57 cm (1′ 11″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Cervus). An adult Sambar deer grows up to a size of 2.04 meter (6′ 9″).
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 sambar (Rusa unicolor) is a large deer native to the Indian subcontinent, South China, and Southeast Asia that is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List since 2008. Populations have declined substantially due to severe hunting, insurgency, and industrial exploitation of habitat.The name “sambar” is also sometimes used to refer to the Philippine deer, called the “Philippine sambar” and the Javan rusa, called the “Sunda sambar”.
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Sambar deer is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Calamian deer with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bornean yellow muntjac weighting around 18.87 kilograms (41.6 lbs)
- Marsh deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pudú with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eld’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine deer weighting around 49.46 kilograms (109.04 lbs)
- Fea’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- South Andean deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sambar deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Reeves’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Sambar deer
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Walrus
- Dwarf free-tailed bat
- Banteng
- Blue wildebeest
- Red brocket
- Himalayan goral
- Pallid bat
- Sunda pangolin
- Muskox
- Dian’s tarsier
Animals that get as old as a Sambar deer
Other animals that usually reach the age of 26.42 years:
- Anoa with 22.5 years
- Eurasian beaver with 25 years
- Black lemur with 30 years
- American badger with 26 years
- White-tailed deer with 23 years
- California sea lion with 30 years
- Chamois with 22 years
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat with 30 years
- Moose with 25 years
- Siberian ibex with 22.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Sambar deer
What other animals weight around 176 kg (388.01 lbs)?
- Père David’s deer usually reaching 165.5 kgs (364.86 lbs)
- White-beaked dolphin usually reaching 186.82 kgs (411.87 lbs)
- Lion usually reaching 158.75 kgs (349.98 lbs)
- Giant forest hog usually reaching 196.57 kgs (433.36 lbs)
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin usually reaching 186.76 kgs (411.73 lbs)
- Dwarf sperm whale usually reaching 183 kgs (403.45 lbs)
- Waterbuck usually reaching 203.2 kgs (447.98 lbs)
- Nilgai usually reaching 181.63 kgs (400.43 lbs)
- South American tapir usually reaching 167.75 kgs (369.83 lbs)
- Caribbean monk seal usually reaching 198.38 kgs (437.35 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Sambar deer
Also reaching around 2.04 meter (6′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Takin gets as big as 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)
- Dall’s porpoise gets as big as 1.97 meter (6′ 6″)
- Lion gets as big as 1.84 meter (6′ 1″)
- Guadalupe fur seal gets as big as 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
- Northern fur seal gets as big as 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)
- Giant forest hog gets as big as 2.03 meter (6′ 8″)
- Black wildebeest gets as big as 1.82 meter (6′ 0″)
- Dwarf sperm whale gets as big as 2.16 meter (7′ 2″)
- Red deer gets as big as 2.14 meter (7′ 1″)
- Mountain zebra gets as big as 2.35 meter (7′ 9″)