It is hard to guess what a Pudú weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pudú (Pudu puda) on average weights 9.61 kg (21.18 lbs).
The Pudú is from the family Cervidae (genus: Pudu). It is usually born with about 780 grams (1.72 lbs). They can live for up to 12.5 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:
- Schomburgk’s deer bringing 106 kilos (233.69 lbs) to the scale
- Mule deer bringing 84.31 kilos (185.87 lbs) to the scale
- Bawean deer bringing 55 kilos (121.25 lbs) to the scale
- Reeves’s muntjac bringing 13.5 kilos (29.76 lbs) to the scale
- Persian fallow deer bringing 74.4 kilos (164.02 lbs) to the scale
- Philippine deer bringing 49.1 kilos (108.25 lbs) to the scale
- Pampas deer bringing 34.55 kilos (76.17 lbs) to the scale
- Moose bringing 471.45 kilos (1039.37 lbs) to the scale
- Schomburgk’s deer bringing 107.63 kilos (237.28 lbs) to the scale
- Père David’s deer bringing 165.5 kilos (364.86 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 puda:
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo with a weight of 8.47 kilos (18.67 lbs)
- Southern muriqui with a weight of 10.57 kilos (23.3 lbs)
- Black-striped wallaby with a weight of 11.23 kilos (24.76 lbs)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a weight of 8.23 kilos (18.14 lbs)
- Dingiso with a weight of 9.4 kilos (20.72 lbs)
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo with a weight of 10.48 kilos (23.1 lbs)
- Fossa (animal) with a weight of 9.5 kilos (20.94 lbs)
- Lowland paca with a weight of 8.18 kilos (18.03 lbs)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a weight of 8.91 kilos (19.64 lbs)
- Mountain paca with a weight of 9 kilos (19.84 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:
- Natterer’s bat
- Giant armadillo
- Muskox
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum
- Bontebok
- Scimitar oryx
- African palm civet
- Robert’s snow vole
- Red-tailed sportive lemur
- Black wallaroo
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Pudú
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Pudú:
- Brown mouse lemur with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Sugar glider with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Bobak marmot with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Parma wallaby with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Spectral tarsier with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Fisher (animal) with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Red-fronted gazelle with an average maximal age of 13.5 years
- Pronghorn with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Tammar wallaby with an average maximal age of 14 years