It is hard to guess what a Indian muntjac weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Indian muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak) on average weights 17.51 kg (38.59 lbs).
The Indian muntjac is from the family Cervidae (genus: Muntiacus). It is usually born with about 1.37 kg (3.02 lbs). They can live for up to 17.58 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 99.5 cm (3′ 4″). Usually, Indian muntjacs 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 Indian muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak), also called the southern red muntjac and barking deer, is a deer species native to South and Southeast Asia. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.This muntjac has soft, short, brownish or greyish hair, sometimes with creamy markings. It is among the smallest deer species. It is an omnivore and eats grass, fruit, shoots, seeds, bird eggs, and small animals, and occasionally scavenges on carrion. Its calls sound like barking, often when frightened by a predator, hence the common name “barking deer”. Males have canines, short antlers that usually branch just once near the base, and a large postorbital scent gland used to mark territories.
Animals of the same family as a Indian muntjac
We found other animals of the Cervidae family:
- Mérida brocket bringing 16.5 kilos (36.38 lbs) to the scale
- Roe deer bringing 22.45 kilos (49.49 lbs) to the scale
- Pudú bringing 9.61 kilos (21.19 lbs) to the scale
- Pampas deer bringing 34.55 kilos (76.17 lbs) to the scale
- Barasingha bringing 171.22 kilos (377.48 lbs) to the scale
- Père David’s deer bringing 165.5 kilos (364.86 lbs) to the scale
- Marsh deer bringing 111.76 kilos (246.39 lbs) to the scale
- Pudú bringing 9.6 kilos (21.16 lbs) to the scale
- Tufted deer bringing 23.04 kilos (50.79 lbs) to the scale
- Thorold’s deer bringing 161.68 kilos (356.44 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Indian muntjac
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Muntiacus muntjak:
- Dorcas gazelle with a weight of 15.57 kilos (34.33 lbs)
- Hamadryas baboon with a weight of 14.97 kilos (33 lbs)
- Speke’s gazelle with a weight of 20 kilos (44.09 lbs)
- Chinkara with a weight of 18.91 kilos (41.69 lbs)
- Zebra duiker with a weight of 15.53 kilos (34.24 lbs)
- Bornean yellow muntjac with a weight of 18.87 kilos (41.6 lbs)
- Red-necked wallaby with a weight of 16.83 kilos (37.1 lbs)
- Peters’s duiker with a weight of 18.94 kilos (41.76 lbs)
- North American beaver with a weight of 18.11 kilos (39.93 lbs)
- Cape porcupine with a weight of 14.92 kilos (32.89 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Indian muntjac
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Indian muntjac:
- Klipspringer with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Rhim gazelle with a size of 1.03 meter (3′ 5″)
- Black-fronted duiker with a size of 94.4 cm (3′ 2″)
- Malabar large-spotted civet with a size of 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Speke’s gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Himalayan goral with a size of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Abbott’s duiker with a size of 1.18 meter (3′ 11″)
- Collared peccary with a size of 88.6 cm (2′ 11″)
- Giant armadillo with a size of 87.4 cm (2′ 11″)
- Maxwell’s duiker with a size of 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Indian muntjac
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Indian muntjac:
- Silvery gibbon
- Allen’s swamp monkey
- Grant’s forest shrew
- Eastern bettong
- La Plata dolphin
- Narrow-striped mongoose
- Blue whale
- Grey rhebok
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat
- Red kangaroo
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Indian muntjac
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Indian muntjac:
- Black-crested Sumatran langur with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Western barbastelle with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Fennec fox with an average maximal age of 14.58 years
- East African oryx with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Philippine tarsier with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Bobak marmot with an average maximal age of 15 years
- South African springhare with an average maximal age of 14.5 years
- Tayra with an average maximal age of 18 years
- White-nosed coati with an average maximal age of 17.67 years
- Northern bat with an average maximal age of 15.5 years