It is hard to guess what a Philippine deer weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Philippine deer (Cervus mariannus) on average weights 49.1 kg (108.25 lbs).
The Philippine deer is from the family Cervidae (genus: Cervus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.26 meter (4′ 2″).
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 Philippine deer (Rusa marianna) (Filipino: Usa; Waray: Bugsok), also known as the Philippine sambar or Philippine brown deer, is a vulnerable deer species endemic to the Philippines. It was first described from introduced populations in Guam and the Marianas Islands, hence the specific name.
Animals of the same family as a Philippine deer
We found other animals of the Cervidae family:
- Dwarf brocket bringing 16.04 kilos (35.36 lbs) to the scale
- Gray brocket bringing 16.4 kilos (36.16 lbs) to the scale
- Visayan spotted deer bringing 45.8 kilos (100.97 lbs) to the scale
- Roosevelt’s muntjac bringing 10.76 kilos (23.72 lbs) to the scale
- Thorold’s deer bringing 161.68 kilos (356.44 lbs) to the scale
- Calamian deer bringing 39.66 kilos (87.44 lbs) to the scale
- Reindeer bringing 108.73 kilos (239.71 lbs) to the scale
- Red brocket bringing 20.42 kilos (45.02 lbs) to the scale
- Bornean yellow muntjac bringing 18.87 kilos (41.6 lbs) to the scale
- Pudú bringing 9.6 kilos (21.16 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Philippine deer
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cervus mariannus:
- Cheetah with a weight of 50.54 kilos (111.42 lbs)
- La Plata dolphin with a weight of 40.5 kilos (89.29 lbs)
- Vicuña with a weight of 47.5 kilos (104.72 lbs)
- Sika deer with a weight of 53 kilos (116.84 lbs)
- Galápagos fur seal with a weight of 39.47 kilos (87.02 lbs)
- Bawean deer with a weight of 55 kilos (121.25 lbs)
- Visayan spotted deer with a weight of 45.8 kilos (100.97 lbs)
- Red gazelle with a weight of 40 kilos (88.18 lbs)
- Leopard with a weight of 52.4 kilos (115.52 lbs)
- Celebes warty pig with a weight of 53.46 kilos (117.86 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Philippine deer
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Philippine deer:
- American black bear with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Guanaco with a size of 1.47 meter (4′ 11″)
- Red river hog with a size of 1.37 meter (4′ 6″)
- Brown bear with a size of 1.49 meter (4′ 11″)
- Brown hyena with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Spotted hyena with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Saiga antelope with a size of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Brown hyena with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Visayan warty pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)