It is hard to guess what a Mérida brocket weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mérida brocket (Mazama bricenii) on average weights 16.5 kg (36.38 lbs).
The Mérida brocket is from the family Cervidae (genus: Mazama). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9 cm (0′ 4″).
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 Mérida brocket (Mazama bricenii), also known as the Meroia brocket or rufous brocket, is a small species of deer. It is found in forest and páramo at altitudes of 1,000–3,500 metres (3,300–11,500 ft) in the Andes of northern Colombia and western Venezuela. It was once treated as a subspecies of the similar Little Red Brocket, but has been considered a distinct species since 1987, though as recent as 1999 some maintained it as a subspecies.
Animals of the same family as a Mérida brocket
We found other animals of the Cervidae family:
- Reeves’s muntjac bringing 13.5 kilos (29.76 lbs) to the scale
- Barasingha bringing 171.22 kilos (377.48 lbs) to the scale
- Bawean deer bringing 55 kilos (121.25 lbs) to the scale
- Gray brocket bringing 16.63 kilos (36.66 lbs) to the scale
- Fea’s muntjac bringing 19.9 kilos (43.87 lbs) to the scale
- Gongshan muntjac bringing 18.45 kilos (40.68 lbs) to the scale
- Tufted deer bringing 23.04 kilos (50.79 lbs) to the scale
- Little red brocket bringing 21.05 kilos (46.41 lbs) to the scale
- Bornean yellow muntjac bringing 18.87 kilos (41.6 lbs) to the scale
- Moose bringing 471.45 kilos (1039.37 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Mérida brocket
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mazama bricenii:
- Reeves’s muntjac with a weight of 13.5 kilos (29.76 lbs)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 13.5 kilos (29.76 lbs)
- Peters’s duiker with a weight of 18.94 kilos (41.76 lbs)
- Four-horned antelope with a weight of 19.19 kilos (42.31 lbs)
- Indian crested porcupine with a weight of 14.3 kilos (31.53 lbs)
- Gray brocket with a weight of 16.4 kilos (36.16 lbs)
- Gray brocket with a weight of 16.63 kilos (36.66 lbs)
- Drill (animal) with a weight of 14.23 kilos (31.37 lbs)
- Black wallaroo with a weight of 17 kilos (37.48 lbs)
- Hairy-fronted muntjac with a weight of 18.45 kilos (40.68 lbs)