It is hard to guess what a Eld’s deer weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eld’s deer (Rucervus eldii) on average weights 95.47 kg (210.48 lbs).
The Eld’s deer is from the family Cervidae (genus: Rucervus). It is usually born with about 4.67 kg (10.3 lbs). They can live for up to 19.33 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.65 meter (5′ 5″). Usually, Eld’s deers 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.
Eld’s deer (Panolia eldii), also known as the thamin or brow-antlered deer, is an endangered species of deer indigenous to South Asia. The species was first described and given its binomial name from specimens obtained in Manipur in India in 1839. The Manipur name for the deer was noted as Sungnaee and it was described in 1842 by John McClelland as being “nondescript” but it was given the name Cervus eldi by Guthrie. in honour of Lt. Percy Eld, a British officer who was attached to the residency at Manipur. The three subspecies of the Eld’s deer are:Panolia eldii eldi: The Manipuri brow-antlered deer is found in Manipur, India. It is called sangai in Meitei.P. e. thamin: The Burmese brow-antlered deer found in Myanmar, and westernmost Thailand.P. e. siamensis: The Thai brow-antlered deer is found in Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, and should perhaps be treated as a separate species. The population on the Chinese island of Hainan is sometimes considered another subspecies, P. e. hainanus, but this is not supported by genetic evidence. It was described by Lydekker in 1915.
Animals of the same family as a Eld’s deer
We found other animals of the Cervidae family:
- Roosevelt’s muntjac bringing 10.76 kilos (23.72 lbs) to the scale
- Mule deer bringing 84.31 kilos (185.87 lbs) to the scale
- Gray brocket bringing 16.63 kilos (36.66 lbs) to the scale
- Fallow deer bringing 56.71 kilos (125.02 lbs) to the scale
- Little red brocket bringing 21.05 kilos (46.41 lbs) to the scale
- Tufted deer bringing 23.04 kilos (50.79 lbs) to the scale
- PudĂș bringing 9.61 kilos (21.19 lbs) to the scale
- Marsh deer bringing 111.76 kilos (246.39 lbs) to the scale
- White-tailed deer bringing 75.6 kilos (166.67 lbs) to the scale
- Gongshan muntjac bringing 18.45 kilos (40.68 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Eld’s deer
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rucervus eldii:
- Guanaco with a weight of 95.5 kilos (210.54 lbs)
- Snow sheep with a weight of 90 kilos (198.42 lbs)
- Llama with a weight of 107.66 kilos (237.35 lbs)
- Common warthog with a weight of 82.5 kilos (181.88 lbs)
- Ribbon seal with a weight of 90 kilos (198.42 lbs)
- Asian black bear with a weight of 99.81 kilos (220.04 lbs)
- Atlantic humpback dolphin with a weight of 100 kilos (220.46 lbs)
- Walia ibex with a weight of 99.77 kilos (219.95 lbs)
- American black bear with a weight of 110.75 kilos (244.16 lbs)
- Wild boar with a weight of 84.49 kilos (186.27 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Eld’s deer
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Eld’s deer:
- Grant’s gazelle with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Mule deer with a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Western gorilla with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Philippine warty pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Spotted seal with a size of 1.64 meter (5′ 5″)
- Red river hog with a size of 1.37 meter (4′ 6″)
- Hirola with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- South Andean deer with a size of 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)
- Brown fur seal with a size of 1.91 meter (6′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Eld’s deer
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Eld’s deer:
- Miniopterus macrocneme
- Spectral bat
- Black dorcopsis
- Southern African vlei rat
- Hoolock gibbon
- Black rhinoceros
- Brown woolly monkey
- Egyptian free-tailed bat
- Delacour’s langur
- Tricolored bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Eld’s deer
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Eld’s deer:
- Chital with an average maximal age of 20.75 years
- Black-crested Sumatran langur with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Western barbastelle with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Goat with an average maximal age of 20.75 years
- Sumatran serow with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Roan antelope with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Reindeer with an average maximal age of 20.17 years
- Small-toothed palm civet with an average maximal age of 15.83 years
- Takin with an average maximal age of 19.5 years
- Mohol bushbaby with an average maximal age of 16.5 years