It is hard to guess what a Zebra duiker weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Zebra duiker (Cephalophus zebra) on average weights 15.53 kg (34.23 lbs).
The Zebra duiker is from the family Bovidae (genus: Cephalophus). It is usually born with about 1.7 kg (3.75 lbs). They can live for up to 12.17 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 87.5 cm (2′ 11″). Usually, Zebra 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 zebra duiker (Cephalophus zebra) is a small antelope found primarily in Liberia, as well as the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, and occasionally Guinea. They are sometimes referred to as the banded duiker or striped-back duiker. It is believed to be one of the earliest duiker species to have evolved.
Animals of the same family as a Zebra duiker
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Nile lechwe bringing 85.5 kilos (188.5 lbs) to the scale
- Nilgiri tahr bringing 73.94 kilos (163.01 lbs) to the scale
- Common duiker bringing 15.57 kilos (34.33 lbs) to the scale
- Nubian ibex bringing 47.68 kilos (105.12 lbs) to the scale
- Speke’s gazelle bringing 20 kilos (44.09 lbs) to the scale
- Muskox bringing 312.67 kilos (689.32 lbs) to the scale
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest bringing 168 kilos (370.38 lbs) to the scale
- Thomson’s gazelle bringing 22.6 kilos (49.82 lbs) to the scale
- Black wildebeest bringing 156.55 kilos (345.13 lbs) to the scale
- Soemmerring’s gazelle bringing 41 kilos (90.39 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Zebra duiker
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cephalophus zebra:
- Water deer with a weight of 12.73 kilos (28.06 lbs)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 13.46 kilos (29.67 lbs)
- Chacma baboon with a weight of 17.73 kilos (39.09 lbs)
- Gongshan muntjac with a weight of 18.45 kilos (40.68 lbs)
- Reeves’s muntjac with a weight of 13.5 kilos (29.76 lbs)
- Drill (animal) with a weight of 14.23 kilos (31.37 lbs)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 13.5 kilos (29.76 lbs)
- Mandrill with a weight of 16.74 kilos (36.91 lbs)
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with a weight of 12.61 kilos (27.8 lbs)
- Black musk deer with a weight of 13.6 kilos (29.98 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Zebra duiker
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Zebra duiker:
- Water chevrotain with a size of 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Indian muntjac with a size of 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Ethiopian wolf with a size of 94.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- Wolverine with a size of 77.3 cm (2′ 7″)
- Jaguarundi with a size of 70.1 cm (2′ 4″)
- Cameroon clawless otter with a size of 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Culpeo with a size of 72.4 cm (2′ 5″)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with a size of 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- African wild dog with a size of 92.4 cm (3′ 1″)
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with a size of 85.5 cm (2′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Zebra duiker
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Zebra duiker:
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Atlantic titi
- Papuan bandicoot
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose
- Mountain nyala
- Gelada
- Bactrian camel
- New Zealand sea lion
- Antillean fruit-eating bat
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Zebra duiker
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Zebra duiker:
- Salt’s dik-dik with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Blanford’s fox with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Gray brocket with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Tasmanian pademelon with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Heterohyrax antineae with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Javan mongoose with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Arabian tahr with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Cape grysbok with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Taruca with an average maximal age of 10.58 years