How many baby Common duikers are in a litter?
A Common duiker (Sylvicapra grimmia) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 174 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1.58 kg (3.49 lbs) and measure 24 cm (0′ 10″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Sylvicapra). An adult Common duiker grows up to a size of 96.1 cm (3′ 2″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The common duiker (Sylvicapra grimmia), also known as the grey or bush duiker, is a small antelope found everywhere in Africa south of the Sahara, excluding the Horn of Africa and the rainforests of the central and western parts of the continent. Generally, they are found in habitats with sufficient vegetation cover to allow them to hide—savanna and hilly areas, including the fringes of human settlements.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Common duiker is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Bighorn sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Roan antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Royal antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Przewalski’s gazelle weighting around 27.5 kilograms (60.63 lbs)
- Nubian ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chinkara weighting around 18.91 kilograms (41.69 lbs)
- Arabian tahr with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thomson’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-fronted gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chamois with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Common duiker
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Long-fingered triok
- Seba’s short-tailed bat
- Northern viscacha
- Hispaniolan solenodon
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum
- Tarabundà vole
- Southern pig-tailed macaque
- Leschenault’s rousette
- Royal antelope
- Harnessed bushbuck
Animals that get as old as a Common duiker
Other animals that usually reach the age of 14.25 years:
- South African springhare with 14.5 years
- Southern reedbuck with 16.75 years
- Black-footed mongoose with 15.83 years
- L’Hoest’s monkey with 16 years
- Sable with 15 years
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 15.5 years
- Greater mouse-deer with 16.25 years
- Java mouse-deer with 12 years
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby with 15 years
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby with 14.33 years
Animals with the same weight as a Common duiker
What other animals weight around 15.57 kg (34.33 lbs)?
- North American beaver usually reaching 18.11 kgs (39.93 lbs)
- Gray brocket usually reaching 16.63 kgs (36.66 lbs)
- Black-fronted duiker usually reaching 14.44 kgs (31.83 lbs)
- Ursine tree-kangaroo usually reaching 13.28 kgs (29.28 lbs)
- Whiptail wallaby usually reaching 12.67 kgs (27.93 lbs)
- Dwarf brocket usually reaching 16.04 kgs (35.36 lbs)
- Siberian musk deer usually reaching 13.31 kgs (29.34 lbs)
- Ethiopian wolf usually reaching 14.38 kgs (31.7 lbs)
- Oribi usually reaching 17.16 kgs (37.83 lbs)
- Crested porcupine usually reaching 13.4 kgs (29.54 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Common duiker
Also reaching around 96.1 cm (3′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Dwarf musk deer gets as big as 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Iberian lynx gets as big as 96.3 cm (3′ 2″)
- Chacoan peccary gets as big as 1.03 meter (3′ 5″)
- Giant otter gets as big as 1.14 meter (3′ 9″)
- Eurasian lynx gets as big as 85.4 cm (2′ 10″)
- Bornean orangutan gets as big as 89 cm (3′ 0″)
- Dorcas gazelle gets as big as 96.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- Cameroon clawless otter gets as big as 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Red forest duiker gets as big as 78.7 cm (2′ 7″)
- African clawless otter gets as big as 80.9 cm (2′ 8″)