It is hard to guess what a Water deer weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Water deer (Hydropotes inermis) on average weights 12.73 kg (28.06 lbs).
The Water deer is from the family Cervidae (genus: Hydropotes). It is usually born with about 1.02 kg (2.24 lbs). They can live for up to 12 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 27.5 cm (0′ 11″). Usually, Water deers have 3 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 water deer (Hydropotes inermis) is a small deer superficially more similar to a musk deer than a true deer. Native to China and Korea, there are two subspecies: the Chinese water deer (Hydropotes inermis inermis) and the Korean water deer (Hydropotes inermis argyropus). Despite its lack of antlers and certain other anatomical anomalies—including a pair of prominent tusks (downward-pointing canine teeth), it is classified as a cervid. Its unique anatomical characteristics have caused it to be classified in its own genus (Hydropotes) as well as its own subfamily (Hydropotinae). However, studies of mitochondrial control region and cytochrome b DNA sequences placed it near Capreolus within an Old World section of the subfamily Capreolinae. Its prominent tusks (elongated canines), similar to those of musk deer, have led to both being colloquially named vampire deer in English-speaking areas to which they have been imported. The species is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN. It was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1870.
Animals of the same family as a Water deer
We found other animals of the Cervidae family:
- Chital bringing 69.5 kilos (153.22 lbs) to the scale
- Indian hog deer bringing 37.27 kilos (82.17 lbs) to the scale
- Sambar deer bringing 177.52 kilos (391.36 lbs) to the scale
- Thorold’s deer bringing 161 kilos (354.94 lbs) to the scale
- Pampas deer bringing 34.55 kilos (76.17 lbs) to the scale
- Schomburgk’s deer bringing 107.63 kilos (237.28 lbs) to the scale
- White-tailed deer bringing 75.6 kilos (166.67 lbs) to the scale
- Roe deer bringing 22.45 kilos (49.49 lbs) to the scale
- Reeves’s muntjac bringing 13.5 kilos (29.76 lbs) to the scale
- Pudú bringing 9.6 kilos (21.16 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Water deer
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hydropotes inermis:
- Siberian musk deer with a weight of 13.31 kilos (29.34 lbs)
- Klipspringer with a weight of 13.46 kilos (29.67 lbs)
- Whiptail wallaby with a weight of 12.67 kilos (27.93 lbs)
- Wolverine with a weight of 12.8 kilos (28.22 lbs)
- African golden cat with a weight of 11.29 kilos (24.89 lbs)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 12.3 kilos (27.12 lbs)
- Crested porcupine with a weight of 13.4 kilos (29.54 lbs)
- Alpine musk deer with a weight of 13.6 kilos (29.98 lbs)
- Steenbok with a weight of 11.64 kilos (25.66 lbs)
- Cape porcupine with a weight of 14.92 kilos (32.89 lbs)
Animals with the same litter size as a Water deer
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Water deer:
- Arizona gray squirrel
- Crawford’s gray shrew
- Bolivian big-eared mouse
- Creeping vole
- Abrothrix longipilis
- Desert mouse
- Tibetan sand fox
- Bushy-tailed woodrat
- Numbat
- Long-tailed marmot
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Water deer
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Water deer:
- American mink with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Bat-eared fox with an average maximal age of 13.75 years
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby with an average maximal age of 14.33 years
- Pampas fox with an average maximal age of 13.67 years
- Topi with an average maximal age of 12.5 years
- Rock cavy with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Tasmanian pademelon with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Rock hyrax with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Gray brocket with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Small Indian civet with an average maximal age of 10.5 years