It is hard to guess what a Günther’s dik-dik weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Günther’s dik-dik (Madoqua guentheri) on average weights 4.61 kg (10.16 lbs).
The Günther’s dik-dik is from the family Bovidae (genus: Madoqua). It is usually born with about 684 grams (1.51 lbs). They can live for up to 14 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 61.2 cm (2′ 1″). Usually, Günther’s dik-diks 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.
Günther’s dik-dik (Madoqua guentheri) is a small antelope found in arid zones of East Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Günther’s dik-dik
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- East Caucasian tur bringing 57.5 kilos (126.77 lbs) to the scale
- Aders’s duiker bringing 9.25 kilos (20.39 lbs) to the scale
- Hirola bringing 79.13 kilos (174.45 lbs) to the scale
- Waterbuck bringing 203.2 kilos (447.98 lbs) to the scale
- Bighorn sheep bringing 74.63 kilos (164.53 lbs) to the scale
- Maxwell’s duiker bringing 8.56 kilos (18.87 lbs) to the scale
- Iberian ibex bringing 60.55 kilos (133.49 lbs) to the scale
- Goitered gazelle bringing 26.84 kilos (59.17 lbs) to the scale
- Bay duiker bringing 20 kilos (44.09 lbs) to the scale
- Common tsessebe bringing 133.5 kilos (294.32 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Günther’s dik-dik
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Madoqua guentheri:
- Plains viscacha with a weight of 4.66 kilos (10.27 lbs)
- Big hairy armadillo with a weight of 4.46 kilos (9.83 lbs)
- Alpine marmot with a weight of 4.06 kilos (8.95 lbs)
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with a weight of 5.26 kilos (11.6 lbs)
- Sechuran fox with a weight of 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs)
- Coquerel’s sifaka with a weight of 4.19 kilos (9.24 lbs)
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with a weight of 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs)
- Pampas cat with a weight of 4.4 kilos (9.7 lbs)
- Brown howler with a weight of 5.19 kilos (11.44 lbs)
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.55 kilos (10.03 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Günther’s dik-dik
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Günther’s dik-dik:
- Common genet with a size of 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Bat-eared fox with a size of 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Lar gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Jungle cat with a size of 70.6 cm (2′ 4″)
- Kloss’s gibbon with a size of 51.2 cm (1′ 9″)
- Grey-cheeked mangabey with a size of 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Jaguarundi with a size of 70.4 cm (2′ 4″)
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Guatemalan black howler with a size of 56.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Black crested mangabey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Günther’s dik-dik
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Günther’s dik-dik:
- Striped bandicoot
- Ursine tree-kangaroo
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat
- Southern viscacha
- Gray-bellied night monkey
- Ribboned rope squirrel
- Little free-tailed bat
- Hooded seal
- Western gorilla
- Arabian tahr
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Günther’s dik-dik
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Günther’s dik-dik:
- Yellow-throated marten with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Lowland paca with an average maximal age of 16 years
- White-tailed mongoose with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Pygmy hog with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Brown palm civet with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Long-footed treeshrew with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Antilopine kangaroo with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Fennec fox with an average maximal age of 14.58 years
- North American beaver with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Philippine tarsier with an average maximal age of 15 years