It is hard to guess what a Red forest duiker weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Red forest duiker (Cephalophus natalensis) on average weights 12.36 kg (27.25 lbs).
The Red forest duiker is from the family Bovidae (genus: Cephalophus). It is usually born with about 956 grams (2.11 lbs). They can live for up to 15 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 78.7 cm (2′ 7″). Usually, Red forest duikers have 1 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The red forest duiker, Natal duiker, or Natal red duiker (Cephalophus natalensis) is a small antelope found in central to southern Africa. It is one of 22 extant species form the subfamily Cephalophinae. While the red forest duiker is very similar to the common duiker, it is smaller in size and has a distinguishing reddish coloring. Additionally, the red forest duiker favors a denser bush habitat than the common duiker. The Natal red duiker is more diurnal and less secretive than most forest duikers, so therefore it is easier for them to be observed. In 1999, red forest duikers had an estimated wild population of 42,000 individuals.
Animals of the same family as a Red forest duiker
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Bluebuck bringing 150 kilos (330.69 lbs) to the scale
- Giant eland bringing 644.51 kilos (1420.9 lbs) to the scale
- European bison bringing 674.44 kilos (1486.88 lbs) to the scale
- Four-horned antelope bringing 19.19 kilos (42.31 lbs) to the scale
- Sitatunga bringing 75.28 kilos (165.96 lbs) to the scale
- Aders’s duiker bringing 9.25 kilos (20.39 lbs) to the scale
- Soemmerring’s gazelle bringing 41.58 kilos (91.67 lbs) to the scale
- Red-fronted gazelle bringing 27 kilos (59.52 lbs) to the scale
- Chinkara bringing 18.91 kilos (41.69 lbs) to the scale
- Weyns’s duiker with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Red forest duiker
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cephalophus natalensis:
- Tibetan macaque with a weight of 10.6 kilos (23.37 lbs)
- Siamang with a weight of 10.84 kilos (23.9 lbs)
- Ocelot with a weight of 11.89 kilos (26.21 lbs)
- Black-shanked douc with a weight of 10.33 kilos (22.77 lbs)
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo with a weight of 10.48 kilos (23.1 lbs)
- Ethiopian wolf with a weight of 14.38 kilos (31.7 lbs)
- Pennant’s colobus with a weight of 10.9 kilos (24.03 lbs)
- Water deer with a weight of 12.73 kilos (28.06 lbs)
- Side-striped jackal with a weight of 10.4 kilos (22.93 lbs)
- Siberian musk deer with a weight of 13.31 kilos (29.34 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Red forest duiker
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Red forest duiker:
- Crab-eating fox with a size of 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Ursine colobus with a size of 63.5 cm (2′ 1″)
- Eurasian lynx with a size of 85.4 cm (2′ 10″)
- Marine otter with a size of 67.8 cm (2′ 3″)
- Dwarf musk deer with a size of 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Dingiso with a size of 67.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Serval with a size of 83.5 cm (2′ 9″)
- Moor macaque with a size of 66 cm (2′ 2″)
- European badger with a size of 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Black-footed gray langur with a size of 65.5 cm (2′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Red forest duiker
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Red forest duiker:
- Red deer
- Père David’s deer
- Big free-tailed bat
- Goat
- Klipspringer
- Bush vlei rat
- Tufted capuchin
- Great flying fox
- Common brown lemur
- Asian golden cat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Red forest duiker
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Red forest duiker:
- Cape ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Common warthog with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Arctic fox with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Maned sloth with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Capybara with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Silver dik-dik with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Kirk’s dik-dik with an average maximal age of 16.5 years
- Southern flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Salt’s dik-dik with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby with an average maximal age of 15 years