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The size of the chital - spotted deer (Axis axis):
Well, here is the comparison image of size, of the famous chital deer, considered by many as the most beautiful deer of the world, and base of the food change in the Indian subcontinent. With out them, tigers-lions-leopards-dholes will be lost. Check it:
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Just like the other Indian mammals, it was very hard to found body measurements, however I found an article about wild chital in Hawai and the authors found no difference between the body size of this population and those of India and Sri Lanka. I reviewed on Phillips and his great document about the mammals of Sri Lanka, and in fact, the body size ranges are practically the same. It is interesting that those from Sri Lanka were measured "between pegs" and those of Hawaii were "along the curves", but the differences is no more than 5 cm, which suggest that those deers were measured following a straight line, pressing the tape at minimum. Also, the deer hunted by Hornaday also fit in the range, and the figures from the classic zoologist (summarized by Blanford) also fit perfectly, so I decided to use those measurements.
Now, on the weights, I put all the figures that I could found, separating it by regions.
Hope you like it, like always, if you have more data, fell free to post it, after all, the figures in my images are in constant evolution and nothing is write in stone.
Chital or Spotted Deer (Axis axis)
