What is the maximal age a Java mouse-deer reaches?
An adult Java mouse-deer (Tragulus javanicus) usually gets as old as 12 years.
Java mouse-deers are around 158 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 15.38 kg (33.91 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). As a member of the Tragulidae family (genus: Tragulus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 51.4 cm (1′ 9″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The Java mouse-deer (Tragulus javanicus) is a species of even-toed ungulate in the family Tragulidae. When it reaches maturity it is about the size of a rabbit, making it the smallest living ungulate. It is found in forests in Java and perhaps Bali, although sightings there have not been verified.
Animals of the same family as a Java mouse-deer
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Tragulidae):
- Water chevrotain becoming 14 years old
- Greater mouse-deer becoming 16.25 years old
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Java mouse-deer
With an average age of 12 years, Java mouse-deer are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Eastern bettong usually reaching 11.75 years
- Topi usually reaching 12.5 years
- Greater bilby usually reaching 10 years
- Tammar wallaby usually reaching 14 years
- Black-backed jackal usually reaching 14 years
- Tasmanian pademelon usually reaching 10 years
- Common spotted cuscus usually reaching 11 years
- Grant’s gazelle usually reaching 12.67 years
- Pale fox usually reaching 10 years
- Ground cuscus usually reaching 12 years
Animals with the same number of babies Java mouse-deer
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat
- Atlantic titi
- Guinea baboon
- Waterbuck
- Dorcas gazelle
- Markhor
- California mouse
- Striped dolphin
- Short-snouted elephant shrew
- Sugar glider
Weighting as much as Java mouse-deer
A fully grown Java mouse-deer reaches around 1.88 kg (4.14 lbs). So do these animals:
- Gilbert’s potoroo weighting 1.57 kilos (3.46 lbs) on average
- Crowned lemur weighting 1.7 kilos (3.75 lbs) on average
- Red-bellied lemur weighting 2.03 kilos (4.48 lbs) on average
- White-faced saki weighting 1.67 kilos (3.68 lbs) on average
- Indian giant flying squirrel weighting 1.68 kilos (3.7 lbs) on average
- Swift fox weighting 2.11 kilos (4.65 lbs) on average
- Aquatic genet weighting 1.65 kilos (3.64 lbs) on average
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat weighting 1.75 kilos (3.86 lbs) on average
- Chacoan mara weighting 1.61 kilos (3.55 lbs) on average
- Angolan genet weighting 1.86 kilos (4.1 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Java mouse-deer
Those animals grow as big as a Java mouse-deer:
- Verreaux’s sifaka with 47.2 cm (1′ 7″)
- Alexander’s kusimanse with 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- François’ langur with 58.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Bay cat with 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Hispid hare with 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Marsh mongoose with 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Rock hyrax with 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)
- Bates’s pygmy antelope with 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Black-tailed jackrabbit with 48.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Island fox with 47.2 cm (1′ 7″)