How many baby Tufted deers are in a litter?
A Tufted deer (Elaphodus cephalophus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 181 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 83 grams (0.18 lbs) and measure 8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Elaphodus). An adult Tufted deer grows up to a size of 61.4 cm (2′ 1″).
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 tufted deer (Elaphodus cephalophus) is a small species of deer characterized by a prominent tuft of black hair on its forehead and fang-like canines for the males. It is a close relative of the muntjac, living somewhat further north over a wide area of central China northeastern Myanmar. Suffering from overhunting and habitat loss, this deer is considered near-threatened. It is the only member of the genus Elaphodus. It is restricted to forested mountain habitat up to 4500 m above sea level, making study difficult.
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Tufted deer is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Thorold’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Siberian roe deer with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy brocket weighting around 16.5 kilograms (36.38 lbs)
- Thorold’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Père David’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Marsh deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dwarf brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Javan rusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Reeves’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Tufted deer
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Celebes crested macaque
- Northern bat
- Barasingha
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat
- Black howler
- Gray-bellied night monkey
- Little brown bat
- Narwhal
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle
- Temminck’s flying squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Tufted deer
What other animals weight around 23.04 kg (50.8 lbs)?
- Chinkara usually reaching 18.91 kgs (41.69 lbs)
- Thomson’s gazelle usually reaching 22.6 kgs (49.82 lbs)
- Cameroon clawless otter usually reaching 21.6 kgs (47.62 lbs)
- Little red brocket usually reaching 21.05 kgs (46.41 lbs)
- Fea’s muntjac usually reaching 19.9 kgs (43.87 lbs)
- Bay duiker usually reaching 20 kgs (44.09 lbs)
- Long-tailed goral usually reaching 27 kgs (59.52 lbs)
- Gongshan muntjac usually reaching 18.45 kgs (40.68 lbs)
- Eurasian beaver usually reaching 19 kgs (41.89 lbs)
- Red-fronted gazelle usually reaching 27 kgs (59.52 lbs)