What is the maximal age a Yellow-spotted rock hyrax reaches?
An adult Yellow-spotted rock hyrax (Heterohyrax brucei) usually gets as old as 14 years.
Yellow-spotted rock hyraxs are around 228 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 225 grams (0.5 lbs) and measure 1.3 cm (0′ 1″). As a member of the Procaviidae family (genus: Heterohyrax), a Yellow-spotted rock hyrax caries out around 1 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 46.9 cm (1′ 7″).
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.
Heterohyrax brucei, more commonly known as the yellow-spotted rock hyrax or bush hyrax, is a species of mammal in the family Procaviidae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Southern Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Northern South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and rocky areas. Hyrax comes from the Greek word ὕραξ, or shrew-mouse.
Animals of the same family as a Yellow-spotted rock hyrax
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Procaviidae):
- Rock hyrax becoming 14 years old
- Southern tree hyrax becoming 10 years old
- Southern tree hyrax becoming 12.25 years old
- Heterohyrax antineae becoming 12 years old
- Western tree hyrax becoming 10 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Yellow-spotted rock hyrax
With an average age of 14 years, Yellow-spotted rock hyrax are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Mohol bushbaby usually reaching 16.5 years
- Raccoon dog usually reaching 14 years
- Giant armadillo usually reaching 15 years
- Rock hyrax usually reaching 14 years
- Gray fox usually reaching 15 years
- European hare usually reaching 12 years
- Black-footed mongoose usually reaching 15.83 years
- Red slender loris usually reaching 16.33 years
- Maned wolf usually reaching 15 years
- Pygmy marmoset usually reaching 15.08 years
Animals with the same number of babies Yellow-spotted rock hyrax
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Dall sheep
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey
- Tapeti
- Dorcas gazelle
- Microcebus coquereli
- Green acouchi
- Bahamian hutia
- Melck’s house bat
- Black squirrel monkey
- Bunyoro rabbit
Weighting as much as Yellow-spotted rock hyrax
A fully grown Yellow-spotted rock hyrax reaches around 2.45 kg (5.41 lbs). So do these animals:
- Kinkajou weighting 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs) on average
- Ring-tailed lemur weighting 2.63 kilos (5.8 lbs) on average
- Jackson’s mongoose weighting 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) on average
- Palawan stink badger weighting 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) on average
- Bunyoro rabbit weighting 2.51 kilos (5.53 lbs) on average
- Greater bamboo lemur weighting 2.04 kilos (4.5 lbs) on average
- Black-tailed jackrabbit weighting 2.42 kilos (5.34 lbs) on average
- Japanese hare weighting 2.53 kilos (5.58 lbs) on average
- Central American agouti weighting 2.31 kilos (5.09 lbs) on average
- Cat weighting 2.88 kilos (6.35 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Yellow-spotted rock hyrax
Those animals grow as big as a Yellow-spotted rock hyrax:
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Colombian white-faced capuchin with 37.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Red-eared guenon with 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Long-nosed mongoose with 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Red-bellied lemur with 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Toque macaque with 48 cm (1′ 7″)
- Granada hare with 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Hoolock gibbon with 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- African brush-tailed porcupine with 43.1 cm (1′ 5″)
- White-nosed saki with 44 cm (1′ 6″)