Spotted deer (Axis axis) female🦌

Photo: Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesArtiodactylaCervidae
Mammals

🦌Chital

Axis axis (Erxleben, 1777)

Benekli geyik (Axis axis), geyikgiller (Cervidae) familyasından bir geyik türü. Sri Lanka, Bangladeş ve Hindistan'ın büyük kısmında ormanlık arazide bulunur. Hindistan ormanlarında en yaygın olan geyik türüdür. Kürkü kırmızımsı açık kahverengi ve beyaz beneklidir ve alt kısmı da beyazdır. Her yıl dökülen boynuzları genellikle üç uçlu olup lir şeklinde bükülür ve 75 cm'ye kadar uzayabilir. Kısmen tropik iklim nedeniyle uzun bir çiftleşme dönemi bulunur ve doğumlar yılın her döneminde olabilir. Bu nedenle erkeklerin boynuz dönüşümleri eşzamanlı değildir ve yıl boyunca doğurgan dişilere rastlanır. Sert boynuzları olan erkekler, boynuzları olmayan ya da henüz kadife içinde olanlara karşı üstünlük sağlarlar.

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

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

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  • 21 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length
9.99 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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

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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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