It is hard to guess what a Pudú weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pudú (Pudu mephistophiles) on average weights 9.6 kg (21.16 lbs).
The Pudú is from the family Cervidae (genus: Pudu). It is usually born with about 400 grams (0.88 lbs). They can live for up to 10 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Pudús 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.
The pudús (Mapudungun püdü or püdu, Spanish: pudú, Spanish pronunciation: [puˈðu]) are two species of South American deer from the genus Pudu, and are the world’s smallest deer. The name is a loanword from Mapudungun, the language of the indigenous Mapuche people of central Chile and south-western Argentina. The two species of pudús are the northern pudú (Pudu mephistophiles) from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, and the southern pudú (Pudu puda; sometimes incorrectly modified to Pudu pudu) from southern Chile and south-western Argentina. Pudús range in size from 32 to 44 centimeters (13 to 17 in) tall, and up to 85 centimeters (33 in) long. The southern pudu is currently classified as near threatened, while the northern pudu is classified as Data Deficient in the IUCN Red List.
Animals of the same family as a Pudú
We found other animals of the Cervidae family:
- Sambar deer bringing 176 kilos (388.01 lbs) to the scale
- Visayan spotted deer bringing 45.8 kilos (100.97 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
- Barasingha bringing 171.22 kilos (377.48 lbs) to the scale
- Reeves’s muntjac bringing 13.5 kilos (29.76 lbs) to the scale
- Roosevelt’s muntjac bringing 10.76 kilos (23.72 lbs) to the scale
- Giant muntjac bringing 36.69 kilos (80.89 lbs) to the scale
- Indian muntjac bringing 17.51 kilos (38.6 lbs) to the scale
- Eld’s deer bringing 94.7 kilos (208.78 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Pudú
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pudu mephistophiles:
- Pygathrix bieti with a weight of 11 kilos (24.25 lbs)
- Malayan porcupine with a weight of 8 kilos (17.64 lbs)
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo with a weight of 8.31 kilos (18.32 lbs)
- Honey badger with a weight of 9 kilos (19.84 lbs)
- Roosevelt’s muntjac with a weight of 10.76 kilos (23.72 lbs)
- Lowland paca with a weight of 8.17 kilos (18.01 lbs)
- Ursine colobus with a weight of 7.7 kilos (16.98 lbs)
- Pennant’s colobus with a weight of 9.16 kilos (20.19 lbs)
- African golden cat with a weight of 11.29 kilos (24.89 lbs)
- Maxwell’s duiker with a weight of 8.44 kilos (18.61 lbs)
Animals with the same litter size as a Pudú
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Pudú:
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Patas monkey
- Red kangaroo
- Madagascan rousette
- Speke’s pectinator
- Molossops planirostris
- Sika deer
- Dassie rat
- Koala
- Koslov’s pika
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Pudú
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Pudú:
- Red-flanked duiker with an average maximal age of 9.5 years
- Asian small-clawed otter with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Mountain beaver with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 9.75 years
- Long-footed treeshrew with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Plantain squirrel with an average maximal age of 9.58 years
- Long-footed potoroo with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Whiskered bat with an average maximal age of 9.25 years
- Rufous hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Common ringtail possum with an average maximal age of 8 years