Spotted deer (Axis axis) female🦌

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SpeciesArtiodactylaCervidae
Mammals

🦌Chital

Axis axis (Erxleben, 1777)

액시스사슴 또는 치탈(chital 또는 cheetal, 학명: Axis axis)은 인도와 스리랑카, 네팔, 방글라데시, 부탄 그리고 파키스탄 일부 지역의 숲에서 주로 발견되는 사슴의 일종이다. 인도 숲에서 가장 흔히 볼 수 있는 사슴이다. 이전에는 액시스사슴속(Axis)의 유일종으로 분류했지만, 현재는 기존의 돼지사슴속(Hyelaphus) 3~4종과 함께 같은 동물 속으로 분류하고 있다. 천적은 호랑이, 아시아사자, 표범, 승냥이, 늪악어, 인도비단뱀이다.

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Also called
Axis Deer, Indian Spotted Deer, Spotted Deer
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
46 kg
Body length
1.75 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
21 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Chital

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
46 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 36 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length
1.75 m
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Brain mass
167 g
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Maximum lifespan
21 years
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  • 21 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length
9.99 years
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Age at maturity
1.5 years
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Gestation
227 days
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  • 226 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter size
1
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  • 1.03AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Home range
0.67 km²
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Population density
8.6 per km²
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Volume l
46 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Chital yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderArtiodactyla
  5. ›familyCervidae
  6. ›genusAxis
  7. ›speciesAxis axis
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  3. subfamilyCervinae
  4. genusAxis
All 16 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  12. suborderRuminantia
  13. infraorderPecora
  14. familyCervidae
  15. subfamilyCervinae
  16. genusAxis
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More about the Chital

Closest relative on this site
🦌 Barasingha — last shared an ancestor ≈ 3.6 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants90%
fruit10%
In other languages
Axishirsch (de), Cerf axis (fr), aksis (pl), אייל נקוד (he), Axis axis (es), pettyes szarvas (hu) … and 24 more languages

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