It is hard to guess what a Barasingha weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Barasingha (Rucervus duvaucelii) on average weights 171.22 kg (377.48 lbs).
The Barasingha is from the family Cervidae (genus: Rucervus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.5 meter (5′ 0″). Usually, Barasinghas have 1 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The barasingha (Rucervus duvaucelii), also called swamp deer, is a deer species distributed in the Indian subcontinent. Populations in northern and central India are fragmented, and two isolated populations occur in southwestern Nepal. It is extinct in Pakistan and Bangladesh.The specific name commemorates the French naturalist Alfred Duvaucel.The swamp deer differs from all other Indian deer species in that the antlers carry more than three tines. Because of this distinctive character it is designated bārah-singgā, meaning “twelve-horned” in Hindustani. Mature stags usually have 10 to 14 tines, and some have been known to have up to 20.In Assamese, barasingha is called dolhorina; dol meaning swamp.
Animals of the same family as a Barasingha
We found other animals of the Cervidae family:
- Hairy-fronted muntjac bringing 18.45 kilos (40.68 lbs) to the scale
- Water deer bringing 12.73 kilos (28.06 lbs) to the scale
- Moose bringing 541.46 kilos (1193.71 lbs) to the scale
- Gongshan muntjac bringing 18.45 kilos (40.68 lbs) to the scale
- Pygmy brocket bringing 16.5 kilos (36.38 lbs) to the scale
- Reindeer bringing 108.73 kilos (239.71 lbs) to the scale
- Javan rusa bringing 65.8 kilos (145.06 lbs) to the scale
- Giant muntjac bringing 36.69 kilos (80.89 lbs) to the scale
- South Andean deer bringing 69.02 kilos (152.16 lbs) to the scale
- Reeves’s muntjac bringing 13.5 kilos (29.76 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Barasingha
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rucervus duvaucelii:
- Red hartebeest with a weight of 176.12 kilos (388.28 lbs)
- Sambar deer with a weight of 177.52 kilos (391.36 lbs)
- Philippine warty pig with a weight of 189.4 kilos (417.56 lbs)
- Dwarf sperm whale with a weight of 183.07 kilos (403.6 lbs)
- Nilgai with a weight of 181.63 kilos (400.43 lbs)
- Dwarf sperm whale with a weight of 183 kilos (403.45 lbs)
- Anoa with a weight of 180.86 kilos (398.73 lbs)
- Striped dolphin with a weight of 142.05 kilos (313.17 lbs)
- South American sea lion with a weight of 194 kilos (427.7 lbs)
- Bluebuck with a weight of 150 kilos (330.69 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Barasingha
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Barasingha:
- Dama gazelle with a size of 1.46 meter (4′ 10″)
- Vaquita with a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Nilgiri tahr with a size of 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Philippine deer with a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Dama gazelle with a size of 1.46 meter (4′ 10″)
- Vicuña with a size of 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Eld’s deer with a size of 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Impala with a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- Common warthog with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Blackbuck with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Barasingha
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Barasingha: