What is the maximal age a Abbott’s duiker reaches?
An adult Abbott’s duiker (Cephalophus spadix) usually gets as old as 5.42 years.
When born, they weight 4.41 kg (9.71 lbs) and measure 20 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Cephalophus). Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.18 meter (3′ 11″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The Abbott’s duiker (Cephalophus spadix), also known as minde in Swahili, is a large, forest-dwelling duiker (small antelope) found only in a few scattered enclaves in Tanzania. It may be a subspecies of the yellow-backed duiker. It is very rare, and the first photograph of an Abbott’s duiker in the wild was taken as recently as 2003.
Animals of the same family as a Abbott’s duiker
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Southern reedbuck becoming 16.75 years old
- Sharpe’s grysbok becoming 14 years old
- Greater kudu becoming 23 years old
- Blue duiker becoming 12 years old
- White-bellied duiker becoming 5.25 years old
- Black-fronted duiker becoming 19.67 years old
- Przewalski’s gazelle growing to a mass of 27.5 kgs (60.63 lbs)
- Nubian ibex becoming 17 years old
- European bison becoming 27 years old
- Gemsbok becoming 20 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Abbott’s duiker
With an average age of 5.42 years, Abbott’s duiker are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Silky pocket mouse usually reaching 5 years
- Prevost’s squirrel usually reaching 5.67 years
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy usually reaching 4.58 years
- Rakali usually reaching 6.17 years
- Sandhill dunnart usually reaching 5 years
- Val’s gundi usually reaching 5 years
- Eastern mole usually reaching 6.17 years
- Desert hedgehog usually reaching 4.5 years
- Scaly-tailed possum usually reaching 6 years
- Greater bulldog bat usually reaching 5.75 years
Weighting as much as Abbott’s duiker
A fully grown Abbott’s duiker reaches around 56.68 kg (124.96 lbs). So do these animals:
- Impala weighting 52.45 kilos (115.63 lbs) on average
- Hector’s dolphin weighting 50 kilos (110.23 lbs) on average
- Yellow-backed duiker weighting 61.65 kilos (135.91 lbs) on average
- Iberian ibex weighting 60.55 kilos (133.49 lbs) on average
- Sika deer weighting 53 kilos (116.84 lbs) on average
- Pronghorn weighting 47.18 kilos (104.01 lbs) on average
- Visayan spotted deer weighting 45.8 kilos (100.97 lbs) on average
- Javan rusa weighting 65.8 kilos (145.06 lbs) on average
- East Caucasian tur weighting 57.5 kilos (126.77 lbs) on average
- Caspian seal weighting 62.33 kilos (137.41 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Abbott’s duiker
Those animals grow as big as a Abbott’s duiker:
- Wolf with 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Galápagos fur seal with 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Siberian roe deer with 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
- Four-horned antelope with 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Oribi with 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Caspian seal with 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- White-lipped peccary with 1.11 meter (3′ 8″)
- American black bear with 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Proserpine rock-wallaby with 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Springbok with 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)