What is the maximal age a Sika deer reaches?
An adult Sika deer (Cervus nippon) usually gets as old as 25.42 years.
Sika deers are around 223 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 4.28 kg (9.44 lbs) and measure 57 cm (1′ 11″). As a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Cervus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″).
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 sika deer (Cervus nippon) also known as the spotted deer or the Japanese deer, is a species of deer native to much of East Asia, and introduced to various other parts of the world. Previously found from northern Vietnam in the south to the Russian Far East in the north, it is now uncommon in these areas, excluding Japan, where the species is overabundant.
Animals of the same family as a Sika deer
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Cervidae):
- Bornean yellow muntjac growing to a mass of 18.87 kgs (41.6 lbs)
- Tufted deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hairy-fronted muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Siberian roe deer with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pudú becoming 12.5 years old
- Chital becoming 20.75 years old
- Philippine deer growing to a mass of 49.46 kgs (109.04 lbs)
- Mule deer becoming 22 years old
- Fea’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-tailed deer becoming 23 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Sika deer
With an average age of 25.42 years, Sika deer are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Red-bellied titi usually reaching 25.25 years
- Leopard seal usually reaching 26 years
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo usually reaching 21 years
- Tiger usually reaching 26.25 years
- Guianan squirrel monkey usually reaching 27 years
- Vicuña usually reaching 24.75 years
- Malayan porcupine usually reaching 27.25 years
- Wild boar usually reaching 21 years
- Black-headed spider monkey usually reaching 24 years
- Three-striped night monkey usually reaching 25.25 years
Animals with the same number of babies Sika deer
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Oncilla
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat
- Pagai Island macaque
- Whiptail wallaby
- Checkered elephant shrew
- White rhinoceros
- Silver fruit-eating bat
- Blyth’s vole
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Sloggett’s vlei rat
Weighting as much as Sika deer
A fully grown Sika deer reaches around 53 kg (116.84 lbs). So do these animals:
- Abbott’s duiker weighting 56.68 kilos (124.96 lbs) on average
- Philippine deer weighting 49.1 kilos (108.25 lbs) on average
- Tucuxi weighting 42.82 kilos (94.4 lbs) on average
- Philippine deer weighting 49.46 kilos (109.04 lbs) on average
- Vicuña weighting 47.5 kilos (104.72 lbs) on average
- Bornean orangutan weighting 52.97 kilos (116.78 lbs) on average
- Cougar weighting 53.93 kilos (118.9 lbs) on average
- Pronghorn weighting 47.18 kilos (104.01 lbs) on average
- Visayan spotted deer weighting 45.8 kilos (100.97 lbs) on average
- Fallow deer weighting 56.71 kilos (125.02 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Sika deer
Those animals grow as big as a Sika deer:
- Jentink’s duiker with 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Ringed seal with 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
- Philippine warty pig with 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Baikal seal with 1.27 meter (4′ 3″)
- Striped hyena with 1.11 meter (3′ 8″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Red wolf with 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)
- Philippine deer with 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Siberian roe deer with 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
- Abbott’s duiker with 1.18 meter (3′ 11″)