What is the maximal age a Mountain reedbuck reaches?
An adult Mountain reedbuck (Redunca fulvorufula) usually gets as old as 12.25 years.
Mountain reedbucks are around 222 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 2.72 kg (5.99 lbs) and measure 57.5 cm (1′ 11″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Redunca). Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.23 meter (4′ 1″).
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 mountain reedbuck (Redunca fulvorufula) is an antelope found in mountainous areas of much of sub-Saharan Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Mountain reedbuck
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Kirk’s dik-dik becoming 16.5 years old
- Himalayan goral becoming 17.58 years old
- Siberian ibex becoming 22.25 years old
- Sharpe’s grysbok becoming 14 years old
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Walia ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Puku with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Iberian ibex becoming 16 years old
- Giant eland becoming 16.17 years old
- Aders’s duiker becoming 4 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Mountain reedbuck
With an average age of 12.25 years, Mountain reedbuck are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Gray brocket usually reaching 12 years
- Spectral tarsier usually reaching 12 years
- Greater false vampire bat usually reaching 14 years
- Grant’s gazelle usually reaching 12.67 years
- Taruca usually reaching 10.58 years
- Quokka usually reaching 12 years
- Saiga antelope usually reaching 12 years
- Blue duiker usually reaching 12 years
- Ground cuscus usually reaching 12 years
- Pampas fox usually reaching 13.67 years
Weighting as much as Mountain reedbuck
A fully grown Mountain reedbuck reaches around 29.2 kg (64.38 lbs). So do these animals:
- Chamois weighting 33.11 kilos (72.99 lbs) on average
- Finless porpoise weighting 32.5 kilos (71.65 lbs) on average
- Giant otter weighting 26 kilos (57.32 lbs) on average
- Antilopine kangaroo weighting 27.28 kilos (60.14 lbs) on average
- White-lipped peccary weighting 31.6 kilos (69.67 lbs) on average
- Pyrenean chamois weighting 30 kilos (66.14 lbs) on average
- Dibatag weighting 28.05 kilos (61.84 lbs) on average
- Western grey kangaroo weighting 25.58 kilos (56.39 lbs) on average
- Red goral weighting 28.68 kilos (63.23 lbs) on average
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat weighting 31.88 kilos (70.28 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Mountain reedbuck
Those animals grow as big as a Mountain reedbuck:
- Sun bear with 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Giant otter with 1.14 meter (3′ 9″)
- Galápagos fur seal with 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat with 1 meter (3′ 4″)
- Barbary sheep with 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Ringed seal with 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
- Bohor reedbuck with 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Pronghorn with 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)
- White-lipped peccary with 1.11 meter (3′ 8″)
- Arabian tahr with 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)