It is hard to guess what a Reeves’s muntjac weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Reeves’s muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi) on average weights 13.5 kg (29.76 lbs).
The Reeves’s muntjac is from the family Cervidae (genus: Muntiacus). It is usually born with about 1.05 kg (2.31 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 99.5 cm (3′ 4″). Usually, Reeves’s muntjacs 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.
Reeves’s muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi; Chinese: 山羌), also known as the Chinese muntjac, is a muntjac species found widely in southeastern China (from Gansu to Yunnan) and Taiwan. It has also been introduced in Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom (south England, the Midlands, east Wales), Ireland, and Japan. It takes its name from John Reeves, an employee of the British East India Company in the 19th century.
Animals of the same family as a Reeves’s muntjac
We found other animals of the Cervidae family:
- Schomburgk’s deer bringing 106 kilos (233.69 lbs) to the scale
- Water deer bringing 12.73 kilos (28.06 lbs) to the scale
- White-tailed deer bringing 75.6 kilos (166.67 lbs) to the scale
- Indian muntjac bringing 17.51 kilos (38.6 lbs) to the scale
- Javan rusa bringing 65.8 kilos (145.06 lbs) to the scale
- Sambar deer bringing 176 kilos (388.01 lbs) to the scale
- Pampas deer bringing 34.55 kilos (76.17 lbs) to the scale
- Bornean yellow muntjac bringing 18.87 kilos (41.6 lbs) to the scale
- Gray brocket bringing 16.4 kilos (36.16 lbs) to the scale
- Gongshan muntjac bringing 18.45 kilos (40.68 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Reeves’s muntjac
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Muntiacus reevesi:
- Siberian musk deer with a weight of 13.31 kilos (29.34 lbs)
- Black snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 11 kilos (24.25 lbs)
- Black musk deer with a weight of 13.6 kilos (29.98 lbs)
- Steenbok with a weight of 11.64 kilos (25.66 lbs)
- Red forest duiker with a weight of 12.36 kilos (27.25 lbs)
- Black-striped wallaby with a weight of 11.23 kilos (24.76 lbs)
- Binturong with a weight of 13 kilos (28.66 lbs)
- Barbary macaque with a weight of 11.49 kilos (25.33 lbs)
- Cape porcupine with a weight of 14.92 kilos (32.89 lbs)
- Red-flanked duiker with a weight of 12.06 kilos (26.59 lbs)
Animals with the same litter size as a Reeves’s muntjac
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Reeves’s muntjac: