It is hard to guess what a Pampas deer weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus) on average weights 34.55 kg (76.16 lbs).
The Pampas deer is from the family Cervidae (genus: Ozotoceros). It is usually born with about 2.1 kg (4.63 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.22 meter (4′ 1″). Usually, Pampas 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.
Pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus) is a species of Deer that live in the grasslands of South America at low elevations. They are known as venado or gama in Spanish and as veado-campeiro in Portuguese. Their habitat includes water and hills, often with winter drought, and grass that is high enough to cover a standing deer. Many of them live on the Pantanal wetlands, where there are ongoing conservation efforts, and other areas of annual flooding cycles. Human activity has changed much of the original landscape. They are known to live up to 12 years in the wild, longer if captive, but are threatened due to over-hunting and habitat loss. Many people are concerned over this loss, because a healthy deer population means a healthy grassland, and a healthy grassland is home to many species, some also threatened. Many North American birds migrate south to these areas, and if the Pampas deer habitat is lost, they are afraid these bird species will also decline. There are approximately 80,000 Pampas deer total, with the majority of them living in Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Pampas deer
We found other animals of the Cervidae family:
- Marsh deer bringing 111.76 kilos (246.39 lbs) to the scale
- Dwarf brocket bringing 16.04 kilos (35.36 lbs) to the scale
- Tufted deer bringing 23.04 kilos (50.79 lbs) to the scale
- Gray brocket bringing 16.63 kilos (36.66 lbs) to the scale
- Philippine deer bringing 49.1 kilos (108.25 lbs) to the scale
- Pudú bringing 9.61 kilos (21.19 lbs) to the scale
- Indian hog deer bringing 37.27 kilos (82.17 lbs) to the scale
- Visayan spotted deer bringing 46.48 kilos (102.47 lbs) to the scale
- Roosevelt’s muntjac bringing 10.76 kilos (23.72 lbs) to the scale
- Pygmy brocket bringing 16.5 kilos (36.38 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Pampas deer
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ozotoceros bezoarticus:
- White-lipped peccary with a weight of 31.6 kilos (69.67 lbs)
- Finless porpoise with a weight of 32.5 kilos (71.65 lbs)
- Tibetan antelope with a weight of 32.66 kilos (72 lbs)
- Snow leopard with a weight of 32.5 kilos (71.65 lbs)
- Striped hyena with a weight of 35.09 kilos (77.36 lbs)
- Sumatran orangutan with a weight of 39.7 kilos (87.52 lbs)
- Pyrenean chamois with a weight of 30 kilos (66.14 lbs)
- Calamian deer with a weight of 39.66 kilos (87.44 lbs)
- Giant anteater with a weight of 28.72 kilos (63.32 lbs)
- Red kangaroo with a weight of 38.98 kilos (85.94 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Pampas deer
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pampas deer:
- Sumatran serow with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Ringed seal with a size of 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
- Oribi with a size of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Leopard with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Caspian seal with a size of 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- Dall sheep with a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- Common wombat with a size of 98.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- Sea otter with a size of 1.44 meter (4′ 9″)
- Cougar with a size of 1.4 meter (4′ 8″)
- Capybara with a size of 1.21 meter (4′ 0″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Pampas deer
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Pampas deer: