How big does a Sika deer get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Sika deer (Cervus nippon) reaches an average size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 25.42 years, they grow from 4.28 kg (9.44 lbs) to 53 kg (116.84 lbs). A Sika deer has 1 babies at once. The Sika deer (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 sika deer (Cervus nippon) also known as the spotted deer or the Japanese deer, is a species of deer native to much of East Asia, and introduced to various other parts of the world. Previously found from northern Vietnam in the south to the Russian Far East in the north, it is now uncommon in these areas, excluding Japan, where the species is overabundant.
Animals of the same family as a Sika deer
We found other animals of the Cervidae family:
- Visayan spotted deer bringing 46.48 kilos (102.47 lbs) to the scale
- Mule deer with a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Little red brocket with 1 babies per litter
- Eld’s deer with a size of 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Siberian roe deer with a size of 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
- Philippine deer with a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Indian muntjac with a size of 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Pudú with 1 babies per litter
- Taruca with a size of 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)
- Gray brocket with a size of 92.3 cm (3′ 1″)
Animals with the same size as a Sika deer
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sika deer:
- Jentink’s duiker with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Giant anteater with a size of 1.12 meter (3′ 9″)
- Springbok with a size of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Red wolf with a size of 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)
- Siberian roe deer with a size of 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
- Sheep with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Indian muntjac with a size of 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Abbott’s duiker with a size of 1.18 meter (3′ 11″)
- Pronghorn with a size of 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)
- Ringed seal with a size of 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Sika deer
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Sika deer:
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat
- Long-legged bat
- Townsend’s big-eared bat
- Common ringtail possum
- Brown titi
- Dall sheep
- Vicuña
- Insular horseshoe bat
- Short-eared possum
- Pennant’s colobus
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Sika deer
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Sika deer:
- Mantled howler with an average maximal age of 25 years
- White-faced saki with an average maximal age of 20.67 years
- False killer whale with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Binturong with an average maximal age of 22.67 years
- Patas monkey with an average maximal age of 23.83 years
- Grévy’s zebra with an average maximal age of 26 years
- Brown fur seal with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Sambar deer with an average maximal age of 26.42 years
- Greater kudu with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Egyptian fruit bat with an average maximal age of 22.83 years
Animals with the same weight as a Sika deer
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cervus nippon:
- Abbott’s duiker with a weight of 56.68 kilos (124.96 lbs)
- Visayan spotted deer with a weight of 45.8 kilos (100.97 lbs)
- West Caucasian tur with a weight of 60.73 kilos (133.89 lbs)
- Spinner dolphin with a weight of 50.5 kilos (111.33 lbs)
- Visayan spotted deer with a weight of 46.48 kilos (102.47 lbs)
- Markhor with a weight of 53.95 kilos (118.94 lbs)
- Harbour porpoise with a weight of 52.72 kilos (116.23 lbs)
- Homo sapiens with a weight of 58.62 kilos (129.23 lbs)
- Cougar with a weight of 53.93 kilos (118.9 lbs)
- Sun bear with a weight of 57.04 kilos (125.75 lbs)