How many baby Thorold’s deers are in a litter?
A Thorold’s deer (Cervus albirostris) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 263 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 140 grams (0.31 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Cervus). An adult Thorold’s deer grows up to a size of 65 cm (2′ 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.
Thorold’s deer (Cervus albirostris) is a threatened species of deer found in grassland, shrubland, and forest at high altitudes in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. It is also known as the white-lipped deer (Baichunlu, 白唇鹿, in Simplified Chinese, ཤྭ་བ་མཆུ་དཀར།་ in Standard Tibetan) for the white patches around its muzzle.This deer fills an ecological niche similar to the Tibetan red deer (shou, the subspecies wallichi of the red deer species group). It was first scientifically described by Nikolai Przhevalsky in 1883, and the first specimens were procured by G. W. Thorold, after whom the species is named. As of early 2011, more than 100 Thorold’s deer are kept in ISIS-registered zoos, and in 1998 it was estimated that about 7000 remain in the wild.
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Thorold’s deer is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Reeves’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Javan rusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Indian hog deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Schomburgk’s deer weighting around 106 kilograms (233.69 lbs)
- Fallow deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chital with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Moose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sambar deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sika deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gongshan muntjac weighting around 18.45 kilograms (40.68 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Thorold’s deer
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Northern common cuscus
- Stein’s cuscus
- Peale’s free-tailed bat
- Ribboned rope squirrel
- Arabian gazelle
- Central American squirrel monkey
- Western woolly lemur
- Greater mouse-eared bat
- Banded hare-wallaby
- Northern giraffe
Animals that get as old as a Thorold’s deer
Other animals that usually reach the age of 18 years:
- La Plata dolphin with 16 years
- Red slender loris with 16.33 years
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur with 17.08 years
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 15.5 years
- Tayra with 18 years
- Hartebeest with 20 years
- Black bearded saki with 18 years
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo with 21 years
- Dall sheep with 16 years
- Madagascan fruit bat with 20 years
Animals with the same weight as a Thorold’s deer
What other animals weight around 161 kg (354.94 lbs)?
- Harp seal usually reaching 132 kgs (291.01 lbs)
- Gemsbok usually reaching 187.6 kgs (413.59 lbs)
- Thorold’s deer usually reaching 161.68 kgs (356.44 lbs)
- White-beaked dolphin usually reaching 186.82 kgs (411.87 lbs)
- Nilgai usually reaching 181.63 kgs (400.43 lbs)
- Eastern gorilla usually reaching 149.33 kgs (329.22 lbs)
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin usually reaching 186.76 kgs (411.73 lbs)
- South American tapir usually reaching 167.75 kgs (369.83 lbs)
- Asinus usually reaching 172.5 kgs (380.3 lbs)
- Brown fur seal usually reaching 178.75 kgs (394.08 lbs)