How big does a Sitatunga get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii) reaches an average size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 21.5 years, they grow from 4 kg (8.82 lbs) to 75.28 kg (165.96 lbs). A Sitatunga has 1 babies at once. The Sitatunga (genus: Tragelaphus) is a member of the family Bovidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The sitatunga or marshbuck (Tragelaphus spekii) is a swamp-dwelling antelope found throughout central Africa, centering on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, parts of Southern Sudan, Ghana, Botswana, Rwanda, Zambia, Gabon, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.The sitatunga is confined to swampy and marshy habitats. Here they occur in tall and dense vegetation as well as seasonal swamps, marshy clearings in forests, riparian thickets and mangrove swamps.
Animals of the same family as a Sitatunga
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Lesser kudu with a size of 1.68 meter (5′ 6″)
- Red hartebeest with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Nilgiri tahr with a size of 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Cape grysbok with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Thomson’s gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Cattle with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Suni with a size of 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Mongolian gazelle with a size of 1.24 meter (4′ 1″)
- Kob with a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Four-horned antelope with a size of 100 cm (3′ 4″)
Animals with the same size as a Sitatunga
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sitatunga:
- Western gorilla with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Saola with a size of 1.75 meter (5′ 9″)
- Leopard with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Sun bear with a size of 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Mule deer with a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Puku with a size of 1.34 meter (4′ 5″)
- Harbour porpoise with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Vaquita with a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Harp seal with a size of 1.73 meter (5′ 9″)
- Philippine deer with a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Sitatunga
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Sitatunga:
- Western tree hyrax
- Straw-coloured fruit bat
- Southeast Asian long-fingered bat
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat
- Brazilian big-eyed bat
- Dwarf free-tailed bat
- Indian pangolin
- Gayal
- Moustached guenon
- Little yellow bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Sitatunga
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Sitatunga:
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey with an average maximal age of 19 years
- Black howler with an average maximal age of 20.25 years
- Risso’s dolphin with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Alpine marmot with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with an average maximal age of 21.17 years
- Goeldi’s marmoset with an average maximal age of 17.83 years
- Sheep with an average maximal age of 19.17 years
- Indian muntjac with an average maximal age of 17.58 years
- Dama gazelle with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Bharal with an average maximal age of 24 years
Animals with the same weight as a Sitatunga
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tragelaphus spekii:
- South Asian river dolphin with a weight of 75.99 kilos (167.53 lbs)
- Alpaca with a weight of 64.9 kilos (143.08 lbs)
- Javan warty pig with a weight of 89.2 kilos (196.65 lbs)
- Common warthog with a weight of 82.5 kilos (181.88 lbs)
- Commerson’s dolphin with a weight of 72.4 kilos (159.61 lbs)
- Caspian seal with a weight of 62.33 kilos (137.41 lbs)
- Jaguar with a weight of 84.26 kilos (185.76 lbs)
- Javan rusa with a weight of 65.8 kilos (145.06 lbs)
- Harbor seal with a weight of 87.31 kilos (192.49 lbs)
- Desert warthog with a weight of 75.61 kilos (166.69 lbs)