It is hard to guess what a Javan rusa weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Javan rusa (Rusa timorensis) on average weights 66.38 kg (146.33 lbs).
The Javan rusa is from the family Cervidae (genus: Rusa). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.63 meter (5′ 5″). Usually, Javan rusas 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 Javan rusa or Sunda sambar (Rusa timorensis) is a deer native to the islands of Indonesia and East Timor. Introduced populations exist in a wide variety of locations in the Southern Hemisphere.
Animals of the same family as a Javan rusa
We found other animals of the Cervidae family:
- Père David’s deer bringing 165.5 kilos (364.86 lbs) to the scale
- Pudú bringing 9.6 kilos (21.16 lbs) to the scale
- Siberian roe deer bringing 41.19 kilos (90.81 lbs) to the scale
- Marsh deer bringing 111.76 kilos (246.39 lbs) to the scale
- Red deer bringing 240.43 kilos (530.06 lbs) to the scale
- Roosevelt’s muntjac bringing 10.76 kilos (23.72 lbs) to the scale
- Hairy-fronted muntjac bringing 18.45 kilos (40.68 lbs) to the scale
- Visayan spotted deer bringing 45.8 kilos (100.97 lbs) to the scale
- Dwarf brocket bringing 16.04 kilos (35.36 lbs) to the scale
- Eld’s deer bringing 95.47 kilos (210.48 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Javan rusa
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rusa timorensis:
- Jentink’s duiker with a weight of 68 kilos (149.91 lbs)
- Fallow deer with a weight of 56.71 kilos (125.02 lbs)
- Dall sheep with a weight of 70 kilos (154.32 lbs)
- Abbott’s duiker with a weight of 56.68 kilos (124.96 lbs)
- Alpine ibex with a weight of 69.42 kilos (153.04 lbs)
- Celebes warty pig with a weight of 53.46 kilos (117.86 lbs)
- Himalayan tahr with a weight of 68.26 kilos (150.49 lbs)
- Ringed seal with a weight of 70.96 kilos (156.44 lbs)
- Chital with a weight of 69.5 kilos (153.22 lbs)
- Caspian seal with a weight of 62.33 kilos (137.41 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Javan rusa
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Javan rusa:
- Subantarctic fur seal with a size of 1.63 meter (5′ 4″)
- Puku with a size of 1.34 meter (4′ 5″)
- Sumatran serow with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Southern reedbuck with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Mule deer with a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Baiji with a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 8″)
- Bawean deer with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Common warthog with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Argali with a size of 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Javan rusa
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Javan rusa: