How big does a Indian muntjac get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Indian muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak) reaches an average size of 99.5 cm (3′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 17.58 years, they grow from 1.37 kg (3.02 lbs) to 17.51 kg (38.59 lbs). A Indian muntjac has 1 babies at once. The Indian muntjac (genus: Muntiacus) is a member of the family Cervidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The Indian muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak), also called the southern red muntjac and barking deer, is a deer species native to South and Southeast Asia. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.This muntjac has soft, short, brownish or greyish hair, sometimes with creamy markings. It is among the smallest deer species. It is an omnivore and eats grass, fruit, shoots, seeds, bird eggs, and small animals, and occasionally scavenges on carrion. Its calls sound like barking, often when frightened by a predator, hence the common name “barking deer”. Males have canines, short antlers that usually branch just once near the base, and a large postorbital scent gland used to mark territories.
Animals of the same family as a Indian muntjac
We found other animals of the Cervidae family:
- Mule deer with a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Siberian roe deer with a size of 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
- Persian fallow deer bringing 74.4 kilos (164.02 lbs) to the scale
- Red brocket with 1 babies per litter
- Sika deer with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Marsh deer with a size of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Visayan spotted deer bringing 46.48 kilos (102.47 lbs) to the scale
- Water deer with 3 babies per litter
- Pygmy brocket bringing 16.5 kilos (36.38 lbs) to the scale
- Reeves’s muntjac with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Indian muntjac
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Indian muntjac:
- Eurasian lynx with a size of 85.4 cm (2′ 10″)
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with a size of 85.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Iberian lynx with a size of 96.3 cm (3′ 2″)
- Siamang with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Red-fronted gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with a size of 99.9 cm (3′ 4″)
- Mountain gazelle with a size of 1.01 meter (3′ 4″)
- Red wolf with a size of 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)
- Ogilby’s duiker with a size of 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Klipspringer with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Indian muntjac
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Indian muntjac:
- Eastern woolly lemur
- Black-capped squirrel monkey
- Brown titi
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat
- Maxwell’s duiker
- Variegated butterfly bat
- Oncilla
- Striped bush squirrel
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat
- Indian rhinoceros
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Indian muntjac
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Indian muntjac:
- Clouded leopard with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Snow leopard with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Caracal with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Dorcas gazelle with an average maximal age of 17.42 years
- Fennec fox with an average maximal age of 14.58 years
- Red goral with an average maximal age of 18.25 years
- Nine-banded armadillo with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Hector’s dolphin with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Northern bat with an average maximal age of 15.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Indian muntjac
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Muntiacus muntjak:
- African clawless otter with a weight of 19.16 kilos (42.24 lbs)
- Bay duiker with a weight of 20 kilos (44.09 lbs)
- Oribi with a weight of 17.16 kilos (37.83 lbs)
- Hairy-fronted muntjac with a weight of 18.45 kilos (40.68 lbs)
- Gray brocket with a weight of 16.63 kilos (36.66 lbs)
- Drill (animal) with a weight of 14.23 kilos (31.37 lbs)
- Zebra duiker with a weight of 15.53 kilos (34.24 lbs)
- Black-fronted duiker with a weight of 14.44 kilos (31.83 lbs)
- Fea’s muntjac with a weight of 19.9 kilos (43.87 lbs)
- Ogilby’s duiker with a weight of 18.29 kilos (40.32 lbs)