What is the maximal age a Sambar deer reaches?
An adult Sambar deer (Rusa unicolor) usually gets as old as 26.42 years.
Sambar deers are around 246 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 10.27 kg (22.64 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Rusa), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 2.04 meter (6′ 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 sambar (Rusa unicolor) is a large deer native to the Indian subcontinent, South China, and Southeast Asia that is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List since 2008. Populations have declined substantially due to severe hunting, insurgency, and industrial exploitation of habitat.The name “sambar” is also sometimes used to refer to the Philippine deer, called the “Philippine sambar” and the Javan rusa, called the “Sunda sambar”.
Animals of the same family as a Sambar deer
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Cervidae):
- Visayan spotted deer growing to a mass of 46.48 kgs (102.47 lbs)
- Mérida brocket growing to a mass of 16.5 kgs (36.38 lbs)
- Roosevelt’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Indian hog deer becoming 20 years old
- Reeves’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Siberian roe deer with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bornean yellow muntjac growing to a mass of 18.87 kgs (41.6 lbs)
- Fea’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gongshan muntjac growing to a mass of 18.45 kgs (40.68 lbs)
- Thorold’s deer becoming 18 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Sambar deer
With an average age of 26.42 years, Sambar deer are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Gelada usually reaching 28 years
- Coyote usually reaching 21.83 years
- Anoa usually reaching 22.5 years
- Red-tailed monkey usually reaching 28.25 years
- Mule deer usually reaching 22 years
- Blue monkey usually reaching 27.08 years
- Platypus usually reaching 22 years
- African buffalo usually reaching 29.5 years
- Allen’s swamp monkey usually reaching 23 years
- Rodrigues flying fox usually reaching 30 years
Animals with the same number of babies Sambar deer
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Giant panda
- Water buffalo
- Red deer
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat
- Red-eared guenon
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Sumatran serow
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby
- Banana pipistrelle
- Black rhinoceros
Weighting as much as Sambar deer
A fully grown Sambar deer reaches around 177.52 kg (391.37 lbs). So do these animals:
- Gemsbok weighting 187.6 kilos (413.59 lbs) on average
- Barasingha weighting 171.22 kilos (377.48 lbs) on average
- East African oryx weighting 200.58 kilos (442.2 lbs) on average
- Fraser’s dolphin weighting 164 kilos (361.56 lbs) on average
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin weighting 186.76 kilos (411.73 lbs) on average
- Waterbuck weighting 203.2 kilos (447.98 lbs) on average
- Australian sea lion weighting 189.14 kilos (416.98 lbs) on average
- White-beaked dolphin weighting 186.82 kilos (411.87 lbs) on average
- Striped dolphin weighting 142.05 kilos (313.17 lbs) on average
- Nilgai weighting 181.63 kilos (400.43 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Sambar deer
Those animals grow as big as a Sambar deer:
- Dall’s porpoise with 1.97 meter (6′ 6″)
- Banteng with 2.08 meter (6′ 10″)
- Spectacled bear with 1.77 meter (5′ 10″)
- Arctocephalus forsteri with 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
- Short-beaked common dolphin with 2.44 meter (8′ 1″)
- Mountain zebra with 2.35 meter (7′ 9″)
- Scimitar oryx with 1.91 meter (6′ 4″)
- Tiger with 1.83 meter (6′ 0″)
- Caribbean monk seal with 2.29 meter (7′ 7″)
- New Zealand sea lion with 2.02 meter (6′ 8″)