What is the maximal age a Taruca reaches?
An adult Taruca (Hippocamelus antisensis) usually gets as old as 10.58 years.
Tarucas are around 235 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 5.73 kg (12.63 lbs) and measure 1.3 cm (0′ 1″). As a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Hippocamelus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.55 meter (5′ 2″).
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 taruca (Hippocamelus antisensis), or north Andean deer, is a species of deer native to South America.
Animals of the same family as a Taruca
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Cervidae):
- Pudú becoming 10 years old
- Roosevelt’s muntjac with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eld’s deer becoming 19.33 years old
- Philippine deer growing to a mass of 49.1 kgs (108.25 lbs)
- Pudú becoming 12.5 years old
- Bawean deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray brocket becoming 12 years old
- South Andean deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Fallow deer becoming 25 years old
- Chital becoming 20.75 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Taruca
With an average age of 10.58 years, Taruca are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Tasmanian pademelon usually reaching 10 years
- Greater fairy armadillo usually reaching 12 years
- Silver-haired bat usually reaching 12 years
- Pacarana usually reaching 9.33 years
- White-footed sportive lemur usually reaching 8.58 years
- White-tailed mongoose usually reaching 12 years
- Red-legged sun squirrel usually reaching 8.83 years
- Agile wallaby usually reaching 12 years
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby usually reaching 12 years
- Maxwell’s duiker usually reaching 12.25 years
Animals with the same number of babies Taruca
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Spix’s night monkey
- Grandidier’s mongoose
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Sei whale
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
- Banana pipistrelle
- Stump-tailed macaque
- Hispid pocket gopher
- Philippine flying lemur
- Dusky leaf monkey
Weighting as much as Taruca
A fully grown Taruca reaches around 68.6 kg (151.24 lbs). So do these animals:
- Chital weighting 69.5 kilos (153.22 lbs) on average
- Bushpig weighting 68.91 kilos (151.92 lbs) on average
- Iberian ibex weighting 60.55 kilos (133.49 lbs) on average
- Fallow deer weighting 56.71 kilos (125.02 lbs) on average
- Spotted hyena weighting 63.69 kilos (140.41 lbs) on average
- Mountain goat weighting 71.84 kilos (158.38 lbs) on average
- Ringed seal weighting 70.96 kilos (156.44 lbs) on average
- Grant’s gazelle weighting 55.46 kilos (122.27 lbs) on average
- Grant’s gazelle weighting 55 kilos (121.25 lbs) on average
- Desert warthog weighting 75.61 kilos (166.69 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Taruca
Those animals grow as big as a Taruca:
- Saola with 1.75 meter (5′ 9″)
- Bighorn sheep with 1.57 meter (5′ 2″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Black wildebeest with 1.82 meter (6′ 0″)
- Pronghorn with 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)
- Gerenuk with 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Mule deer with 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Wild boar with 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Eld’s deer with 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Sitatunga with 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)