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Spotted deer (Axis axis) female🦌

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SpeciesArtiodactylaCervidae
Mammals

🦌Chital

Axis axis (Erxleben, 1777)

Аксис (лат. Axis axis) — представитель семейства оленевых (Cervidae).

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Videos
26
Photos
3
Measurements
13
vs you
≈ half your weight
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
All measurements ↓
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
COMBINE
Other figures ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 36 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length
1.75 m
COMBINE
Details ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
167 g
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
21 years
COMBINE
Other figures ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 21 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length
9.99 years
COMBINE
Details ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
1.5 years
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
227 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 226 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter size
1
COMBINE
Other figures ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 1.03AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Trophic level
Herbivore
COMBINE
Details ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
0.67 km²
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
8.6 per km²
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
46 Laverage
Details ↓

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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