How many baby Water chevrotains are in a litter?
A Water chevrotain (Hyemoschus aquaticus) 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 173 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1.02 kg (2.24 lbs) and measure 8.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Tragulidae family (genus: Hyemoschus). An adult Water chevrotain grows up to a size of 75 cm (2′ 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.
The water chevrotain (Hyemoschus aquaticus), also known as the fanged deer, is a small ruminant found in tropical Africa. It is the largest of the 10 species of chevrotains, basal even-toed ungulates which are similar to deer, but are barely larger than small dogs.
Other animals of the family Tragulidae
Water chevrotain is a member of the Tragulidae, as are these animals:
- Java mouse-deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater mouse-deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Water chevrotain
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Insular horseshoe bat
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat
- Grant’s forest shrew
- Senegal bushbaby
- Venezuelan red howler
- Hirola
- Lemur-like ringtail possum
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose
- Australian sea lion
- Round-eared tube-nosed bat
Animals that get as old as a Water chevrotain
Other animals that usually reach the age of 14 years:
- Red forest duiker with 15 years
- Llama with 14.17 years
- Squirrel glider with 12 years
- Salt’s dik-dik with 14 years
- Thomson’s gazelle with 15.17 years
- Pygmy marmoset with 15.08 years
- Black-footed ferret with 12 years
- Gray brocket with 12 years
- Pudú with 12.5 years
- Calabar angwantibo with 13 years
Animals with the same weight as a Water chevrotain
What other animals weight around 10.83 kg (23.87 lbs)?
- Sharpe’s grysbok usually reaching 9.37 kgs (20.66 lbs)
- Steenbok usually reaching 11.64 kgs (25.66 lbs)
- Agile wallaby usually reaching 11.86 kgs (26.15 lbs)
- Pennant’s colobus usually reaching 10.9 kgs (24.03 lbs)
- Beira (antelope) usually reaching 10.91 kgs (24.05 lbs)
- Pygathrix bieti usually reaching 11 kgs (24.25 lbs)
- Siamang usually reaching 10.84 kgs (23.9 lbs)
- Tonkean macaque usually reaching 10.07 kgs (22.2 lbs)
- Pudú usually reaching 9.61 kgs (21.19 lbs)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 12.3 kgs (27.12 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Water chevrotain
Also reaching around 75 cm (2′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Bristle-spined rat gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Red-shanked douc gets as big as 61.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Dingiso gets as big as 67.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Thomson’s gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Siberian musk deer gets as big as 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Pygathrix bieti gets as big as 71.8 cm (2′ 5″)
- Ocelot gets as big as 74.6 cm (2′ 6″)
- Otter civet gets as big as 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- African golden cat gets as big as 79.9 cm (2′ 8″)