It is hard to guess what a Marsh deer weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus) on average weights 111.76 kg (246.39 lbs).
The Marsh deer is from the family Cervidae (genus: Blastocerus). It is usually born with about 4.2 kg (9.26 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.72 meter (5′ 8″). On average, Marsh deers can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus) is the largest deer species from South America reaching a length of 2 m (6.6 ft) and a shoulder height of 1.2 m (3.9 ft). It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. Formerly found in much of tropical and subtropical South America, it ranged east of the Andes, south from the Amazon rainforest, west of the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest and north of the Argentinian Pampa. Today it is largely reduced to isolated populations at marsh and lagoon zones in the Paraná, Paraguay, Araguaia and Guapore river basins. Small populations also occur in the southern Amazon, including Peru where protected in Bahuaja-Sonene National Park. It is listed as a vulnerable species by the IUCN and on CITES Appendix I.The latter half of its scientific name refers to the forked antlers. Marsh deer resemble the North American mule deer or blacktail deer.
Animals of the same family as a Marsh deer
We found other animals of the Cervidae family:
- Moose bringing 471.45 kilos (1039.37 lbs) to the scale
- Bornean yellow muntjac bringing 18.87 kilos (41.6 lbs) to the scale
- Little red brocket bringing 21.05 kilos (46.41 lbs) to the scale
- Visayan spotted deer bringing 46.48 kilos (102.47 lbs) to the scale
- Persian fallow deer bringing 74.4 kilos (164.02 lbs) to the scale
- Tufted deer bringing 23.04 kilos (50.79 lbs) to the scale
- Reindeer bringing 108.73 kilos (239.71 lbs) to the scale
- Thorold’s deer bringing 161 kilos (354.94 lbs) to the scale
- Philippine deer bringing 49.1 kilos (108.25 lbs) to the scale
- Bawean deer bringing 55 kilos (121.25 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Marsh deer
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Blastocerus dichotomus:
- Arctocephalus forsteri with a weight of 101.13 kilos (222.95 lbs)
- Barbary sheep with a weight of 93.7 kilos (206.57 lbs)
- Northern right whale dolphin with a weight of 113 kilos (249.12 lbs)
- Buru babirusa with a weight of 92.33 kilos (203.55 lbs)
- Siberian ibex with a weight of 130 kilos (286.6 lbs)
- Atlantic spotted dolphin with a weight of 110 kilos (242.51 lbs)
- Pacific white-sided dolphin with a weight of 109.85 kilos (242.18 lbs)
- Guadalupe fur seal with a weight of 101.03 kilos (222.73 lbs)
- Amazon river dolphin with a weight of 121.22 kilos (267.24 lbs)
- Asian black bear with a weight of 99.81 kilos (220.04 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Marsh deer
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Marsh deer:
- Grant’s gazelle with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Black wildebeest with a size of 1.82 meter (6′ 0″)
- Brown fur seal with a size of 1.91 meter (6′ 3″)
- Barbary sheep with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Cougar with a size of 1.4 meter (4′ 8″)
- Takin with a size of 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)
- Javan rusa with a size of 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Hirola with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Hartebeest with a size of 1.98 meter (6′ 6″)
- Dall sheep with a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Marsh deer
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Marsh deer: