What is the maximal age a Sitatunga reaches?
An adult Sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii) usually gets as old as 21.5 years.
Sitatungas are around 241 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 4 kg (8.82 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Tragelaphus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″).
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 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
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Dama gazelle becoming 17.25 years old
- Hirola becoming 15.17 years old
- Gemsbok becoming 20 years old
- Giant eland becoming 16.17 years old
- Springbok becoming 20 years old
- Nyala becoming 16 years old
- Klipspringer becoming 17.75 years old
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Takin becoming 19.5 years old
- Maxwell’s duiker becoming 12.25 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Sitatunga
With an average age of 21.5 years, Sitatunga are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Gemsbok usually reaching 20 years
- Patas monkey usually reaching 23.83 years
- Bechstein’s bat usually reaching 21 years
- Mule deer usually reaching 22 years
- Anoa usually reaching 22.5 years
- Lesser horseshoe bat usually reaching 21 years
- Blue wildebeest usually reaching 21.5 years
- Geoffroy’s bat usually reaching 18 years
- Goitered gazelle usually reaching 20 years
- Townsend’s big-eared bat usually reaching 21.17 years
Animals with the same number of babies Sitatunga
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Blue monkey
- Hirola
- Sable antelope
- Fulvus roundleaf bat
- Sun bear
- Grant’s gazelle
- White-eared titi
- King colobus
- Dall sheep
- Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo
Weighting as much as Sitatunga
A fully grown Sitatunga reaches around 75.28 kg (165.96 lbs). So do these animals:
- Common warthog weighting 82.5 kilos (181.88 lbs) on average
- Hirola weighting 78.6 kilos (173.28 lbs) on average
- South American fur seal weighting 68.14 kilos (150.22 lbs) on average
- Nilgiri tahr weighting 73.94 kilos (163.01 lbs) on average
- Baikal seal weighting 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs) on average
- Lechwe weighting 88.02 kilos (194.05 lbs) on average
- Baikal seal weighting 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs) on average
- Dama gazelle weighting 71.42 kilos (157.45 lbs) on average
- Spectacled porpoise weighting 65 kilos (143.3 lbs) on average
- Commerson’s dolphin weighting 72.4 kilos (159.61 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Sitatunga
Those animals grow as big as a Sitatunga:
- Hirola with 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Baikal seal with 1.28 meter (4′ 3″)
- Common warthog with 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Arctocephalus forsteri with 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
- Australian sea lion with 1.8 meter (5′ 11″)
- Sumatran serow with 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Bawean deer with 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- American black bear with 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Pygmy hippopotamus with 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Baiji with 1.7 meter (5′ 8″)