How big does a Pampas deer get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus) reaches an average size of 1.22 meter (4′ 1″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 34.55 kg (76.16 lbs). On birth they have a weight of 2.1 kg (4.63 lbs). A Pampas deer has 1 babies at once. The Pampas deer (genus: Ozotoceros) 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.
Pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus) is a species of Deer that live in the grasslands of South America at low elevations. They are known as venado or gama in Spanish and as veado-campeiro in Portuguese. Their habitat includes water and hills, often with winter drought, and grass that is high enough to cover a standing deer. Many of them live on the Pantanal wetlands, where there are ongoing conservation efforts, and other areas of annual flooding cycles. Human activity has changed much of the original landscape. They are known to live up to 12 years in the wild, longer if captive, but are threatened due to over-hunting and habitat loss. Many people are concerned over this loss, because a healthy deer population means a healthy grassland, and a healthy grassland is home to many species, some also threatened. Many North American birds migrate south to these areas, and if the Pampas deer habitat is lost, they are afraid these bird species will also decline. There are approximately 80,000 Pampas deer total, with the majority of them living in Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Pampas deer
We found other animals of the Cervidae family:
- Chital with 1 babies per litter
- Schomburgk’s deer bringing 106 kilos (233.69 lbs) to the scale
- Pudú with 1 babies per litter
- Moose with a size of 2.83 meter (9′ 4″)
- Sambar deer with a size of 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)
- Visayan spotted deer bringing 45.8 kilos (100.97 lbs) to the scale
- Hairy-fronted muntjac with 1 babies per litter
- Thorold’s deer with 1 babies per litter
- Pudú with 1 babies per litter
- Indian muntjac with a size of 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
Animals with the same size as a Pampas deer
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pampas deer:
- Red wolf with a size of 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)
- Common warthog with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Common wombat with a size of 98.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- Spotted hyena with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Giant anteater with a size of 1.12 meter (3′ 9″)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with a size of 99.9 cm (3′ 4″)
- Oribi with a size of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Springbok with a size of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Iberian ibex with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Siberian roe deer with a size of 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Pampas deer
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Pampas deer:
- Lesser horseshoe bat
- Brown’s pademelon
- Hero shrew
- Whiskered flying squirrel
- Prehensile-tailed hutia
- Western gorilla
- Tree bat
- Black bearded saki
- Four-striped ground squirrel
- Striped bandicoot
Animals with the same weight as a Pampas deer
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ozotoceros bezoarticus:
- Mountain reedbuck with a weight of 29.2 kilos (64.37 lbs)
- Galápagos fur seal with a weight of 39.47 kilos (87.02 lbs)
- Red gazelle with a weight of 40 kilos (88.18 lbs)
- Sheep with a weight of 37.47 kilos (82.61 lbs)
- White-lipped peccary with a weight of 31.6 kilos (69.67 lbs)
- Wolf with a weight of 33.38 kilos (73.59 lbs)
- Gerenuk with a weight of 38.65 kilos (85.21 lbs)
- Finless porpoise with a weight of 32.5 kilos (71.65 lbs)
- Striped hyena with a weight of 35.09 kilos (77.36 lbs)
- Thylacine with a weight of 30 kilos (66.14 lbs)