How big does a Taruca get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Taruca (Hippocamelus antisensis) reaches an average size of 1.55 meter (5′ 2″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 10.58 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 68.6 kg (151.24 lbs). A Taruca has 1 babies at once. The Taruca (genus: Hippocamelus) 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 taruca (Hippocamelus antisensis), or north Andean deer, is a species of deer native to South America.
Animals of the same family as a Taruca
We found other animals of the Cervidae family:
- Sika deer with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Indian muntjac with a size of 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Père David’s deer with 1 babies per litter
- Bornean yellow muntjac with a size of 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Persian fallow deer bringing 74.4 kilos (164.02 lbs) to the scale
- Little red brocket with 1 babies per litter
- Reindeer with a size of 2.23 meter (7′ 4″)
- Eld’s deer with a size of 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Gray brocket with a size of 92.3 cm (3′ 1″)
- Fallow deer with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Taruca
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Taruca:
- Jaguar with a size of 1.33 meter (4′ 5″)
- Sea otter with a size of 1.44 meter (4′ 9″)
- Sumatran serow with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Visayan warty pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Mongolian gazelle with a size of 1.24 meter (4′ 1″)
- Subantarctic fur seal with a size of 1.63 meter (5′ 4″)
- Caspian seal with a size of 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- Bighorn sheep with a size of 1.57 meter (5′ 2″)
- Pygmy hippopotamus with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Western gorilla with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Taruca
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Taruca:
- Blue whale
- Flores woolly bat
- Narrow-striped mongoose
- Spectral bat
- Ground cuscus
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby
- Merriam’s pocket gopher
- Allen’s woodrat
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby
- Sunda pangolin
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Taruca
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Taruca:
- Brown palm civet with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Short-tailed chinchilla with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Pygmy hog with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Maned sloth with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Horsfield’s tarsier with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Least weasel with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Cape fox with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Mountain nyala with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Southern tamandua with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Maxwell’s duiker with an average maximal age of 12.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Taruca
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hippocamelus antisensis:
- Chital with a weight of 69.5 kilos (153.22 lbs)
- Fallow deer with a weight of 56.71 kilos (125.02 lbs)
- Yellow-backed duiker with a weight of 61.65 kilos (135.91 lbs)
- Ringed seal with a weight of 70.96 kilos (156.44 lbs)
- Alpine ibex with a weight of 69.42 kilos (153.04 lbs)
- South American fur seal with a weight of 68.14 kilos (150.22 lbs)
- Sitatunga with a weight of 75.28 kilos (165.96 lbs)
- Bushpig with a weight of 68.91 kilos (151.92 lbs)
- Ringed seal with a weight of 71.1 kilos (156.75 lbs)
- South Andean deer with a weight of 69.02 kilos (152.16 lbs)