How many baby Sika deers are in a litter?
A Sika deer (Cervus nippon) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 223 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4.28 kg (9.44 lbs) and measure 57 cm (1′ 11″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Cervus). An adult Sika 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 sika deer (Cervus nippon) also known as the spotted deer or the Japanese deer, is a species of deer native to much of East Asia, and introduced to various other parts of the world. Previously found from northern Vietnam in the south to the Russian Far East in the north, it is now uncommon in these areas, excluding Japan, where the species is overabundant.
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Sika deer is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Red deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Roosevelt’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Water deer with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Taruca with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Javan rusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Indian hog deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Visayan spotted deer weighting around 46.48 kilograms (102.47 lbs)
- Red brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Reeves’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Schomburgk’s deer weighting around 107.63 kilograms (237.28 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Sika deer
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Malagasy civet
- Forest giant squirrel
- Kolan vole
- Blackish deer mouse
- Temminck’s flying squirrel
- Baird’s tapir
- Klipspringer
- Western brush wallaby
- Michoacan deer mouse
- François’ langur
Animals that get as old as a Sika deer
Other animals that usually reach the age of 25.42 years:
- De Brazza’s monkey with 26.25 years
- Tana River mangabey with 21 years
- Daubenton’s bat with 28 years
- Collared peccary with 24.42 years
- Bontebok with 21.67 years
- African brush-tailed porcupine with 22.83 years
- Chamois with 22 years
- African buffalo with 29.5 years
- Egyptian fruit bat with 22.83 years
- Crested mona monkey with 24.08 years
Animals with the same weight as a Sika deer
What other animals weight around 53 kg (116.84 lbs)?
- Sun bear usually reaching 57.04 kgs (125.75 lbs)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle usually reaching 48.5 kgs (106.92 lbs)
- Chimpanzee usually reaching 45.03 kgs (99.27 lbs)
- Goat usually reaching 47.14 kgs (103.93 lbs)
- Tucuxi usually reaching 42.82 kgs (94.4 lbs)
- Celebes warty pig usually reaching 53.46 kgs (117.86 lbs)
- Spinner dolphin usually reaching 50.5 kgs (111.33 lbs)
- East Caucasian tur usually reaching 57.5 kgs (126.77 lbs)
- Visayan spotted deer usually reaching 46.48 kgs (102.47 lbs)
- Markhor usually reaching 53.95 kgs (118.94 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Sika deer
Also reaching around 1.2 meter (4′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Himalayan goral gets as big as 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Dall sheep gets as big as 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- Sea otter gets as big as 1.44 meter (4′ 9″)
- Giant anteater gets as big as 1.12 meter (3′ 9″)
- Baikal seal gets as big as 1.28 meter (4′ 3″)
- Abbott’s duiker gets as big as 1.18 meter (3′ 11″)
- Common warthog gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat gets as big as 1 meter (3′ 4″)
- Bawean deer gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Bharal gets as big as 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)