It is hard to guess what a Sika deer weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sika deer (Cervus nippon) on average weights 53 kg (116.84 lbs).
The Sika deer is from the family Cervidae (genus: Cervus). It is usually born with about 4.28 kg (9.44 lbs). They can live for up to 25.42 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.2 meter (4′ 0″). Usually, Sika deers 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 sika deer (Cervus nippon) also known as the spotted deer or the Japanese deer, is a species of deer native to much of East Asia, and introduced to various other parts of the world. Previously found from northern Vietnam in the south to the Russian Far East in the north, it is now uncommon in these areas, excluding Japan, where the species is overabundant.
Animals of the same family as a Sika deer
We found other animals of the Cervidae family:
- Little red brocket bringing 21.05 kilos (46.41 lbs) to the scale
- Roosevelt’s muntjac bringing 10.76 kilos (23.72 lbs) to the scale
- Mule deer bringing 84.31 kilos (185.87 lbs) to the scale
- Père David’s deer bringing 165.5 kilos (364.86 lbs) to the scale
- Siberian roe deer bringing 41.19 kilos (90.81 lbs) to the scale
- Pudú bringing 9.6 kilos (21.16 lbs) to the scale
- Persian fallow deer bringing 74.4 kilos (164.02 lbs) to the scale
- Sambar deer bringing 176 kilos (388.01 lbs) to the scale
- Chital bringing 69.5 kilos (153.22 lbs) to the scale
- Reindeer bringing 108.73 kilos (239.71 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Sika deer
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cervus nippon:
- Vicuña with a weight of 47.5 kilos (104.72 lbs)
- Bawean deer with a weight of 55 kilos (121.25 lbs)
- Visayan spotted deer with a weight of 46.48 kilos (102.47 lbs)
- Harbour porpoise with a weight of 52.72 kilos (116.23 lbs)
- East Caucasian tur with a weight of 57.5 kilos (126.77 lbs)
- Cougar with a weight of 53.93 kilos (118.9 lbs)
- Sun bear with a weight of 57.04 kilos (125.75 lbs)
- Goat with a weight of 47.14 kilos (103.93 lbs)
- Vaquita with a weight of 43.11 kilos (95.04 lbs)
- Markhor with a weight of 53.95 kilos (118.94 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Sika deer
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sika deer:
- Yellow-backed duiker with a size of 1.32 meter (4′ 5″)
- Harnessed bushbuck with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with a size of 99.9 cm (3′ 4″)
- Bornean bearded pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Bohor reedbuck with a size of 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Arabian tahr with a size of 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Mountain gazelle with a size of 1.01 meter (3′ 4″)
- Jaguar with a size of 1.33 meter (4′ 5″)
- Ringed seal with a size of 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Sika deer
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Sika deer:
- Mona monkey
- Maxwell’s duiker
- Jaguar
- Bulmer’s fruit bat
- Antilopine kangaroo
- Malayan civet
- Harbor seal
- Common ringtail possum
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat
- Naked-rumped tomb bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Sika deer
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Sika deer:
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey with an average maximal age of 27.25 years
- North American river otter with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Brown woolly monkey with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Sable antelope with an average maximal age of 22.25 years
- Three-striped night monkey with an average maximal age of 25.25 years
- Red-shanked douc with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Egyptian fruit bat with an average maximal age of 22.83 years
- Dusky leaf monkey with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Blue wildebeest with an average maximal age of 21.5 years
- Blue monkey with an average maximal age of 27.08 years