It is hard to guess what a Philippine deer weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Philippine deer (Rusa marianna) on average weights 49.46 kg (109.03 lbs).
The Philippine deer is from the family Cervidae (genus: Rusa). 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:
- Philippine deer bringing 49.1 kilos (108.25 lbs) to the scale
- Chital bringing 69.5 kilos (153.22 lbs) to the scale
- Thorold’s deer bringing 161.68 kilos (356.44 lbs) to the scale
- Schomburgk’s deer bringing 106 kilos (233.69 lbs) to the scale
- Barasingha bringing 171.22 kilos (377.48 lbs) to the scale
- Pampas deer bringing 34.55 kilos (76.17 lbs) to the scale
- Gray brocket bringing 16.63 kilos (36.66 lbs) to the scale
- Hairy-fronted muntjac bringing 18.45 kilos (40.68 lbs) to the scale
- Visayan spotted deer bringing 46.48 kilos (102.47 lbs) to the scale
- Bornean yellow muntjac bringing 18.87 kilos (41.6 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 Rusa marianna:
- Leopard with a weight of 52.4 kilos (115.52 lbs)
- Sika deer with a weight of 53 kilos (116.84 lbs)
- Chilean dolphin with a weight of 45 kilos (99.21 lbs)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a weight of 41.58 kilos (91.67 lbs)
- Celebes warty pig with a weight of 53.46 kilos (117.86 lbs)
- Capybara with a weight of 47.5 kilos (104.72 lbs)
- Tucuxi with a weight of 42.82 kilos (94.4 lbs)
- Japanese serow with a weight of 42.6 kilos (93.92 lbs)
- Grant’s gazelle with a weight of 55.46 kilos (122.27 lbs)
- Urial with a weight of 51.8 kilos (114.2 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:
- Visayan warty pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Snow leopard with a size of 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Black duiker with a size of 1.04 meter (3′ 6″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Nilgiri tahr with a size of 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Brown bear with a size of 1.49 meter (4′ 11″)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Aardvark with a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Baikal seal with a size of 1.28 meter (4′ 3″)
- Philippine deer with a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)