How many baby South Andean deers are in a litter?
A South Andean deer (Hippocamelus bisulcus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 212 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3.58 kg (7.9 lbs) and measure 99 cm (3′ 3″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Hippocamelus). An adult South Andean deer grows up to a size of 1.55 meter (5′ 2″).
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 south Andean deer (Hippocamelus bisulcus), also known as the southern guemal, Chilean huemul or güemul ( WAY-mool, Spanish: [weˈmul]), is an endangered species of deer native to the mountains of Argentina and Chile. One of two mid-sized deer of the Hippocamelus genus, the south Andean deer ranges across the high mountainsides and cold valleys of the Andes. The distribution and habitat, behaviour, and diet of the deer have all been the subject of study. The viability of the small remaining population is an outstanding concern to researchers.The huemul is part of Chile’s national coat of arms and it is since 2006 a National Natural Monument.
Other animals of the family Cervidae
South Andean deer is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Persian fallow deer weighting around 74.4 kilograms (164.02 lbs)
- Moose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Visayan spotted deer weighting around 45.8 kilograms (100.97 lbs)
- Thorold’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Visayan spotted deer weighting around 46.48 kilograms (102.47 lbs)
- Roosevelt’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Reeves’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Javan rusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hairy-fronted muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chital with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with South Andean deer
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Townsend’s mole
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat
- Diademed sifaka
- Gray dorcopsis
- Black flying squirrel
- Voalavoanala
- Fallow deer
- Grey rhebok
- Weddell seal
- Granada hare
Animals with the same weight as a South Andean deer
What other animals weight around 69.02 kg (152.16 lbs)?
- Burmeister’s porpoise usually reaching 60 kgs (132.28 lbs)
- Yellow-backed duiker usually reaching 61.65 kgs (135.91 lbs)
- Persian fallow deer usually reaching 74.4 kgs (164.02 lbs)
- Alpaca usually reaching 64.9 kgs (143.08 lbs)
- Grant’s gazelle usually reaching 55.46 kgs (122.27 lbs)
- Kob usually reaching 79.77 kgs (175.86 lbs)
- Abbott’s duiker usually reaching 56.68 kgs (124.96 lbs)
- South American fur seal usually reaching 68.14 kgs (150.22 lbs)
- Dall sheep usually reaching 70 kgs (154.32 lbs)
- Dama gazelle usually reaching 70.4 kgs (155.21 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a South Andean deer
Also reaching around 1.55 meter (5′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Saola gets as big as 1.75 meter (5′ 9″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Bornean bearded pig gets as big as 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Sumatran serow gets as big as 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Gerenuk gets as big as 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Dall sheep gets as big as 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- Australian sea lion gets as big as 1.8 meter (5′ 11″)
- Cheetah gets as big as 1.48 meter (4′ 11″)
- Sitatunga gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis gets as big as 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)