Barasingha females🦌

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SpeciesArtiodactylaCervidae
Mammals

🦌Barasingha

Rucervus duvaucelii (G.Cuvier, 1823)

Barasingahjort eller Barasingha (Rucervus duvaucelii) är ett hjortdjur som förekommer i Indien, Nepal och Bhutan. Den har tidigare även funnits i Pakistan och Bangladesh men tros nu vara utrotad där. Artbeståndet är listat som sårbart (VU) av IUCN. Barasingahjortar förekommer i Rudyard Kiplings Djungelboken.

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Also called
Swamp Deer, Western Barasingha, Western Swamp Deer
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
171 kg
Body length
1.5 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
24 years
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Everything we know about the Barasingha

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

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

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  • 170 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length
1.5 m
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Brain mass
228 g
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Maximum lifespan
24 years
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  • 25 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length
7.99 years
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Age at maturity
2.3 years
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Gestation
250 days
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  • 250 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter size
1
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Trophic level
Herbivore
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Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Home range
14 km²
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Population density
2.71 per km²
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Volume l
171 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 Barasingha yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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More about the Barasingha

Closest relative on this site
🦌 Chital — last shared an ancestor ≈ 3.6 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants100%
In other languages
Barasingha (de), Rucervus duvaucelii (es), Barasingha (fr), Barasinga bagienna (pl), mocsári szarvas (hu), Rucervus duvaucelii (it) … and 27 more languages
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