It is hard to guess what a Yellow-backed duiker weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yellow-backed duiker (Cephalophus silvicultor) on average weights 61.65 kg (135.92 lbs).
The Yellow-backed duiker is from the family Bovidae (genus: Cephalophus). It is usually born with about 4.41 kg (9.71 lbs). They can live for up to 17.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.32 meter (4′ 5″). Usually, Yellow-backed 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 yellow-backed duiker (Cephalophus silvicultor) is a forest dwelling antelope in the order Artiodactyla from the family Bovidae. Yellow-backed duikers are the most widely distributed of all duikers. They are found mainly in Central and Western Africa, ranging from Senegal to Western Uganda with possibly a few in Gambia. Their range also extends southward into Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire, and most of Zambia.
Animals of the same family as a Yellow-backed duiker
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Dama gazelle bringing 70.4 kilos (155.21 lbs) to the scale
- Sharpe’s grysbok bringing 9.37 kilos (20.66 lbs) to the scale
- Soemmerring’s gazelle bringing 41 kilos (90.39 lbs) to the scale
- Four-horned antelope bringing 19.19 kilos (42.31 lbs) to the scale
- Ogilby’s duiker bringing 18.29 kilos (40.32 lbs) to the scale
- Dall sheep bringing 70 kilos (154.32 lbs) to the scale
- Arabian gazelle bringing 18.06 kilos (39.82 lbs) to the scale
- Banteng bringing 631.49 kilos (1392.2 lbs) to the scale
- Mountain reedbuck bringing 29.2 kilos (64.37 lbs) to the scale
- Red-flanked duiker bringing 12.06 kilos (26.59 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-backed duiker
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cephalophus silvicultor:
- Jentink’s duiker with a weight of 68 kilos (149.91 lbs)
- Himalayan tahr with a weight of 68.26 kilos (150.49 lbs)
- Javan rusa with a weight of 65.8 kilos (145.06 lbs)
- Abbott’s duiker with a weight of 56.68 kilos (124.96 lbs)
- Aardvark with a weight of 56.85 kilos (125.33 lbs)
- Sika deer with a weight of 53 kilos (116.84 lbs)
- Leopard with a weight of 52.4 kilos (115.52 lbs)
- Javan rusa with a weight of 66.38 kilos (146.34 lbs)
- Alpaca with a weight of 64.9 kilos (143.08 lbs)
- Sun bear with a weight of 57.04 kilos (125.75 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Yellow-backed duiker
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Yellow-backed duiker:
- Common warthog with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Baikal seal with a size of 1.27 meter (4′ 3″)
- Caspian seal with a size of 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- Sheep with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Calamian deer with a size of 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Iberian ibex with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Capybara with a size of 1.21 meter (4′ 0″)
- Arabian tahr with a size of 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)
- Dibatag with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Caspian seal with a size of 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Yellow-backed duiker
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Yellow-backed duiker:
- Long-tailed pangolin
- Malagasy serotine
- Insular horseshoe bat
- Naked-rumped pouched bat
- Delacour’s langur
- Fallow deer
- Micronomus
- L’Hoest’s monkey
- Red-tailed squirrel
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Yellow-backed duiker
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Yellow-backed duiker:
- Rock hyrax with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Snow leopard with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Whiptail wallaby with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Eld’s deer with an average maximal age of 19.33 years
- Arabian tahr with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Mexican free-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 15 years
- White-faced saki with an average maximal age of 20.67 years
- Servaline genet with an average maximal age of 17 years
- African palm civet with an average maximal age of 18.5 years
- Swift fox with an average maximal age of 20 years