How big does a Mule deer get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) reaches an average size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 22 years, they grow from 3.01 kg (6.63 lbs) to 84.31 kg (185.86 lbs). A Mule deer has 1 babies at once. The Mule deer (genus: Odocoileus) 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 mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) is a deer indigenous to western North America; it is named for its ears, which are large like those of the mule. The several subspecies include the black-tailed deer.Unlike the related white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), which is found through most of North America east of the Rocky Mountains and in the valleys of the Rocky Mountains from Idaho and Wyoming northward, mule deer are only found on the western Great Plains, in the Rocky Mountains, in the United States southwest, and on the West Coast of North America. Mule deer have also been introduced to Argentina and Kauai, Hawaii.
Animals of the same family as a Mule deer
We found other animals of the Cervidae family:
- Gray brocket with a size of 92.3 cm (3′ 1″)
- Fea’s muntjac with 1 babies per litter
- Père David’s deer with 1 babies per litter
- Moose with a size of 2.83 meter (9′ 4″)
- Tufted deer with 1 babies per litter
- Eld’s deer with a size of 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Indian muntjac with a size of 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Thorold’s deer with 1 babies per litter
- Javan rusa with a size of 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Bawean deer with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
Animals with the same size as a Mule deer
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mule deer:
- Bornean bearded pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Impala with a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- Capybara with a size of 1.22 meter (4′ 0″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Javan rusa with a size of 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Visayan warty pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Ribbon seal with a size of 1.54 meter (5′ 1″)
- Markhor with a size of 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
- Jentink’s duiker with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mule deer
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Mule deer:
- Eastern falanouc
- Black-striped wallaby
- Livingstone’s fruit bat
- Woermann’s bat
- Pemba flying fox
- Blue monkey
- Amazonian manatee
- Northern ghost bat
- Little yellow bat
- Great fruit-eating bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Mule deer
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Mule deer:
- Sitatunga with an average maximal age of 21.5 years
- Binturong with an average maximal age of 22.67 years
- North American river otter with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Allen’s swamp monkey with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Fringed myotis with an average maximal age of 18.25 years
- Eastern grey kangaroo with an average maximal age of 24 years
- South American fur seal with an average maximal age of 21 years
- American marten with an average maximal age of 19 years
- Bontebok with an average maximal age of 21.67 years
- Raccoon with an average maximal age of 20.83 years
Animals with the same weight as a Mule deer
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Odocoileus hemionus:
- Addax with a weight of 95.39 kilos (210.3 lbs)
- Dama gazelle with a weight of 70.4 kilos (155.21 lbs)
- Persian fallow deer with a weight of 74.4 kilos (164.02 lbs)
- Ringed seal with a weight of 70.96 kilos (156.44 lbs)
- Eld’s deer with a weight of 95.47 kilos (210.48 lbs)
- Bontebok with a weight of 77.24 kilos (170.28 lbs)
- Baikal seal with a weight of 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs)
- Baikal seal with a weight of 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs)
- Kob with a weight of 79.77 kilos (175.86 lbs)
- Lesser kudu with a weight of 93.81 kilos (206.82 lbs)