It is hard to guess what a Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain (Moschiola meminna) on average weights 3.11 kg (6.86 lbs).
The Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain is from the family Tragulidae (genus: Moschiola). It is usually born with about 319 grams (0.7 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 54 cm (1′ 10″). Usually, Sri Lankan spotted chevrotains 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.
Moschiola meminna is a species of even-toed ungulate in the chevrotain family (Tragulidae). Particularly in the old literature, M. meminna often refers to the spotted chevrotains as a whole. Today, the name is increasingly restricted to the Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain or white-spotted chevrotain, with the Indian spotted chevrotain M. indica and/or the yellow-striped chevrotain M. kathygre treated as distinct species. In Sri Lanka, this species is found in the dry zone and is replaced in the wet zone by the yellow-striped chevrotain.
Animals of the same family as a Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain
We found other animals of the Tragulidae family:
- Greater mouse-deer bringing 5.25 kilos (11.57 lbs) to the scale
- Water chevrotain bringing 10.83 kilos (23.88 lbs) to the scale
- Java mouse-deer bringing 1.88 kilos (4.14 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Moschiola meminna:
- Bay cat with a weight of 3.43 kilos (7.56 lbs)
- Golden palm civet with a weight of 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs)
- Moustached guenon with a weight of 3.44 kilos (7.58 lbs)
- Southern tree hyrax with a weight of 3.18 kilos (7.01 lbs)
- South African springhare with a weight of 2.55 kilos (5.62 lbs)
- Scrub hare with a weight of 2.6 kilos (5.73 lbs)
- Brown palm civet with a weight of 3.55 kilos (7.83 lbs)
- Black-rumped agouti with a weight of 2.9 kilos (6.39 lbs)
- Leopard cat with a weight of 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs)
- Kodkod with a weight of 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain:
- Olive colobus with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Common genet with a size of 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Ground cuscus with a size of 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Pallas’s cat with a size of 57.3 cm (1′ 11″)
- Red-handed howler with a size of 55.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Indian pangolin with a size of 54.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- Bengal fox with a size of 52.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Raccoon with a size of 48.6 cm (1′ 8″)
- South American gray fox with a size of 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain: