How big does a Javan rusa get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Javan rusa (Cervus timorensis) reaches an average size of 1.63 meter (5′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 65.8 kg (145.06 lbs). A Javan rusa has 1 babies at once. The Javan rusa (genus: Cervus) 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 Javan rusa or Sunda sambar (Rusa timorensis) is a deer native to the islands of Indonesia and East Timor. Introduced populations exist in a wide variety of locations in the Southern Hemisphere.
Animals of the same family as a Javan rusa
We found other animals of the Cervidae family:
- Sika deer with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Reeves’s muntjac with 1 babies per litter
- Hairy-fronted muntjac with 1 babies per litter
- Siberian roe deer with a size of 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
- Pudú with 1 babies per litter
- Bornean yellow muntjac with a size of 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Fea’s muntjac with 1 babies per litter
- Red brocket with 1 babies per litter
- Schomburgk’s deer bringing 106 kilos (233.69 lbs) to the scale
- Reindeer with a size of 2.23 meter (7′ 4″)
Animals with the same size as a Javan rusa
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Javan rusa:
- Northern fur seal with a size of 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)
- Visayan warty pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Baiji with a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 8″)
- Pronghorn with a size of 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)
- Grant’s gazelle with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Anoa with a size of 1.73 meter (5′ 9″)
- Philippine warty pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Spectacled bear with a size of 1.77 meter (5′ 10″)
- Arctocephalus forsteri with a size of 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
- Dibatag with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Javan rusa
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Javan rusa:
- Pudú
- Ocelot
- Long-legged bat
- Spectacled flying fox
- Round-eared tube-nosed bat
- Moustached tamarin
- Scimitar oryx
- Small flying fox
- Bharal
- Black squirrel monkey
Animals with the same weight as a Javan rusa
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cervus timorensis:
- Sika deer with a weight of 53 kilos (116.84 lbs)
- West Caucasian tur with a weight of 60.73 kilos (133.89 lbs)
- Himalayan tahr with a weight of 68.26 kilos (150.49 lbs)
- Northern fur seal with a weight of 55.58 kilos (122.53 lbs)
- Grant’s gazelle with a weight of 55.46 kilos (122.27 lbs)
- Grant’s gazelle with a weight of 55 kilos (121.25 lbs)
- Fallow deer with a weight of 56.71 kilos (125.02 lbs)
- Australophocaena dioptrica with a weight of 65 kilos (143.3 lbs)
- Bighorn sheep with a weight of 74.63 kilos (164.53 lbs)
- Spectacled porpoise with a weight of 65 kilos (143.3 lbs)