It is hard to guess what a Kirk’s dik-dik weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Kirk’s dik-dik (Madoqua kirkii) on average weights 4.8 kg (10.59 lbs).
The Kirk’s dik-dik is from the family Bovidae (genus: Madoqua). It is usually born with about 626 grams (1.38 lbs). They can live for up to 16.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 65.5 cm (2′ 2″). Usually, Kirk’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.
Kirk’s dik-dik (Madoqua kirkii) is a small antelope native to Eastern Africa and one of four species of dik-dik antelope. It is believed to have six subspecies and possibly a seventh existing in southwest Africa. Dik-diks are herbivores, typically of a fawn color that aids in camouflaging themselves in savannah habitats. According to MacDonald (1985), they are also capable of reaching speeds up to 42 km/hour. The lifespan of Kirk’s dik-dik in the wild is typically 5 years, but may surpass 10 years. In captivity, males have been known to live up to 16.5 years, while females have lived up to 18.4 years.
Animals of the same family as a Kirk’s dik-dik
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Dibatag bringing 28.05 kilos (61.84 lbs) to the scale
- Nubian ibex bringing 47.68 kilos (105.12 lbs) to the scale
- Peters’s duiker bringing 18.94 kilos (41.76 lbs) to the scale
- Four-horned antelope bringing 19.19 kilos (42.31 lbs) to the scale
- Chinese goral with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- African buffalo bringing 592.83 kilos (1306.96 lbs) to the scale
- Mountain gazelle bringing 21.25 kilos (46.85 lbs) to the scale
- Soemmerring’s gazelle bringing 41 kilos (90.39 lbs) to the scale
- Kob bringing 79.77 kilos (175.86 lbs) to the scale
- Chamois bringing 33.11 kilos (72.99 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Kirk’s dik-dik
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Madoqua kirkii:
- Bicolored-spined porcupine with a weight of 4.49 kilos (9.9 lbs)
- Crab-eating fox with a weight of 5.74 kilos (12.65 lbs)
- Preuss’s monkey with a weight of 5.14 kilos (11.33 lbs)
- Red-legged pademelon with a weight of 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs)
- Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth with a weight of 5.7 kilos (12.57 lbs)
- Pale-throated sloth with a weight of 4.33 kilos (9.55 lbs)
- Hoary fox with a weight of 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs)
- Nine-banded armadillo with a weight of 3.98 kilos (8.77 lbs)
- European wildcat with a weight of 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs)
- Pampas fox with a weight of 4.54 kilos (10.01 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Kirk’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 Kirk’s dik-dik:
- Red-faced spider monkey with a size of 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Culpeo with a size of 72 cm (2′ 5″)
- Brown dorcopsis with a size of 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Tibetan sand fox with a size of 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Plains viscacha with a size of 52.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Indian pangolin with a size of 54.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- Bonobo with a size of 75.3 cm (2′ 6″)
- Purple-faced langur with a size of 58.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Hairy-nosed otter with a size of 76.5 cm (2′ 7″)
- Chinese mountain cat with a size of 78.6 cm (2′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Kirk’s dik-dik
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Kirk’s dik-dik:
- Bighorn sheep
- Blyth’s vole
- Bates’s pygmy antelope
- Melck’s house bat
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Leadbeater’s possum
- Forest giant squirrel
- Large mosaic-tailed rat
- Banana pipistrelle
- Blue whale
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Kirk’s dik-dik
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Kirk’s dik-dik:
- Swamp wallaby with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Microcebus coquereli with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Alpine marmot with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Indian muntjac with an average maximal age of 17.58 years
- Marsh mongoose with an average maximal age of 17.42 years
- Black-backed jackal with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 15.5 years
- Black-crested Sumatran langur with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Indian pangolin with an average maximal age of 13.5 years
- Suni with an average maximal age of 14 years