What is the maximal age a Pudú reaches?
An adult Pudú (Pudu puda) usually gets as old as 12.5 years.
Pudús are around 210 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 780 grams (1.72 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). As a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Pudu), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 12 cm (0′ 5″).
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 pudús (Mapudungun püdü or püdu, Spanish: pudú, Spanish pronunciation: [puˈðu]) are two species of South American deer from the genus Pudu, and are the world’s smallest deer. The name is a loanword from Mapudungun, the language of the indigenous Mapuche people of central Chile and south-western Argentina. The two species of pudús are the northern pudú (Pudu mephistophiles) from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, and the southern pudú (Pudu puda; sometimes incorrectly modified to Pudu pudu) from southern Chile and south-western Argentina. Pudús range in size from 32 to 44 centimeters (13 to 17 in) tall, and up to 85 centimeters (33 in) long. The southern pudu is currently classified as near threatened, while the northern pudu is classified as Data Deficient in the IUCN Red List.
Animals of the same family as a Pudú
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Cervidae):
- Eld’s deer becoming 19.33 years old
- Bornean yellow muntjac growing to a mass of 18.87 kgs (41.6 lbs)
- Moose becoming 27 years old
- Roe deer becoming 17 years old
- Reeves’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Indian muntjac becoming 17.58 years old
- Pygmy brocket growing to a mass of 16.5 kgs (36.38 lbs)
- Taruca becoming 10.58 years old
- Moose becoming 25 years old
- Calamian deer with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Pudú
With an average age of 12.5 years, Pudú are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Brown palm civet usually reaching 12 years
- Southern tree hyrax usually reaching 10 years
- Crab-eating mongoose usually reaching 13.33 years
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby usually reaching 12 years
- Smooth-coated otter usually reaching 15 years
- Bush dog usually reaching 10.33 years
- Common warthog usually reaching 15 years
- Weasel sportive lemur usually reaching 12 years
- Tricolored bat usually reaching 15 years
- Long-tailed goral usually reaching 13.17 years
Animals with the same number of babies Pudú
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Northern fur seal
- Southeastern pocket gopher
- Mount Kenya mole shrew
- Bushy-tailed mongoose
- Zanzibar bushbaby
- Dwarf sperm whale
- Banana pipistrelle
- Philippine pygmy squirrel
- Ursine colobus
- Senegal bushbaby
Weighting as much as Pudú
A fully grown Pudú reaches around 9.61 kg (21.18 lbs). So do these animals:
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo weighting 8.31 kilos (18.32 lbs) on average
- Black snub-nosed monkey weighting 11 kilos (24.25 lbs) on average
- Western red colobus weighting 8.43 kilos (18.58 lbs) on average
- African golden cat weighting 11.29 kilos (24.89 lbs) on average
- Nilgiri langur weighting 10.6 kilos (23.37 lbs) on average
- Aardwolf weighting 8.14 kilos (17.95 lbs) on average
- Water chevrotain weighting 10.83 kilos (23.88 lbs) on average
- Large Indian civet weighting 9.15 kilos (20.17 lbs) on average
- Malayan porcupine weighting 8 kilos (17.64 lbs) on average
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo weighting 7.98 kilos (17.59 lbs) on average