How many baby Tarucas are in a litter?
A Taruca (Hippocamelus antisensis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 235 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5.73 kg (12.63 lbs) and measure 1.3 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Hippocamelus). An adult Taruca 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 taruca (Hippocamelus antisensis), or north Andean deer, is a species of deer native to South America.
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Taruca is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Calamian deer with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Gongshan muntjac weighting around 18.45 kilograms (40.68 lbs)
- Pampas deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Javan rusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pudú with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Schomburgk’s deer weighting around 106 kilograms (233.69 lbs)
- Fallow deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Visayan spotted deer weighting around 46.48 kilograms (102.47 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Taruca
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Verreaux’s sifaka
- Handley’s tailless bat
- Long-legged bat
- Aders’s duiker
- White-faced spiny tree-rat
- South African springhare
- Red slender loris
- Temminck’s flying squirrel
- Golden snub-nosed monkey
- Black crested gibbon
Animals that get as old as a Taruca
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10.58 years:
- Speke’s pectinator with 10 years
- Banded mongoose with 12 years
- Weasel sportive lemur with 12 years
- Pichi with 9 years
- Long-tailed chinchilla with 11.25 years
- Red acouchi with 10 years
- California leaf-nosed bat with 10.33 years
- Red-flanked duiker with 9.5 years
- Parma wallaby with 10 years
- Banded linsang with 10.67 years
Animals with the same weight as a Taruca
What other animals weight around 68.6 kg (151.24 lbs)?
- Ringed seal usually reaching 70.96 kgs (156.44 lbs)
- Bighorn sheep usually reaching 74.63 kgs (164.53 lbs)
- Javan rusa usually reaching 65.8 kgs (145.06 lbs)
- Sitatunga usually reaching 75.28 kgs (165.96 lbs)
- Fallow deer usually reaching 56.71 kgs (125.02 lbs)
- Short-beaked common dolphin usually reaching 79.29 kgs (174.8 lbs)
- Himalayan tahr usually reaching 68.26 kgs (150.49 lbs)
- Ringed seal usually reaching 71.1 kgs (156.75 lbs)
- Aardvark usually reaching 56.85 kgs (125.33 lbs)
- Persian fallow deer usually reaching 74.4 kgs (164.02 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Taruca
Also reaching around 1.55 meter (5′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Calamian deer gets as big as 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- South Andean deer gets as big as 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)
- Gerenuk gets as big as 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Mongolian gazelle gets as big as 1.24 meter (4′ 1″)
- Mule deer gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Aardvark gets as big as 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Caspian seal gets as big as 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- Hirola gets as big as 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis gets as big as 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)