How many baby Thorold’s deers are in a litter?
A Thorold’s deer (Przewalskium 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 275 grams (0.61 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Przewalskium). An adult Thorold’s deer grows up to a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″).
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:
- Gray brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Javan rusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Moose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Giant muntjac weighting around 36.69 kilograms (80.89 lbs)
- Taruca with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Water deer with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Barasingha with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Fea’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Moose with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Thorold’s deer
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Blyth’s vole
- Central American agouti
- Black crested gibbon
- Mexican free-tailed bat
- Macleay’s dorcopsis
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat
- Dugong
- Giant armadillo
- Dusky pademelon
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey
Animals that get as old as a Thorold’s deer
Other animals that usually reach the age of 18 years:
- Swift fox with 20 years
- Weyns’s duiker with 15.25 years
- White-lipped peccary with 21 years
- South African springhare with 14.5 years
- Cattle with 20 years
- Northern bat with 15.5 years
- Himalayan goral with 17.58 years
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby with 15 years
- Common tsessebe with 18 years
- Red-rumped agouti with 17.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Thorold’s deer
What other animals weight around 161.68 kg (356.45 lbs)?
- Visayan warty pig usually reaching 189.4 kgs (417.56 lbs)
- Anoa usually reaching 180.86 kgs (398.73 lbs)
- Pygmy killer whale usually reaching 170 kgs (374.79 lbs)
- Mountain tapir usually reaching 155.46 kgs (342.73 lbs)
- Striped dolphin usually reaching 142.05 kgs (313.17 lbs)
- Père David’s deer usually reaching 165.5 kgs (364.86 lbs)
- Bluebuck usually reaching 150 kgs (330.69 lbs)
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin usually reaching 186.76 kgs (411.73 lbs)
- Sambar deer usually reaching 176 kgs (388.01 lbs)
- Black wildebeest usually reaching 156.55 kgs (345.13 lbs)