How big does a Abbott’s duiker get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Abbott’s duiker (Cephalophus spadix) reaches an average size of 1.18 meter (3′ 11″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 5.42 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 56.68 kg (124.96 lbs). The Abbott’s duiker (genus: Cephalophus) is a member of the family Bovidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
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
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Water buffalo with a size of 2.65 meter (8′ 9″)
- Cuvier’s gazelle with 1 babies per litter
- Anoa with a size of 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Maxwell’s duiker with a size of 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Sharpe’s grysbok with a size of 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Sitatunga with a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Saudi gazelle bringing 16 kilos (35.27 lbs) to the scale
- Giant eland with a size of 2.52 meter (8′ 4″)
- Weyns’s duiker with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Yellow-backed duiker with a size of 1.32 meter (4′ 5″)
Animals with the same size as a Abbott’s duiker
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Abbott’s duiker:
- Peters’s duiker with a size of 1.02 meter (3′ 4″)
- Bharal with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Wolf with a size of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Common wombat with a size of 98.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- Oribi with a size of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Ringed seal with a size of 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
- Black-fronted duiker with a size of 94.4 cm (3′ 2″)
- Jaguar with a size of 1.33 meter (4′ 5″)
- Pronghorn with a size of 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)
- Striped hyena with a size of 1.11 meter (3′ 8″)
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Abbott’s duiker
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Abbott’s duiker:
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Bank vole with an average maximal age of 4.83 years
- Greater bulldog bat with an average maximal age of 5.75 years
- Little free-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Val’s gundi with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Hispid cotton rat with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Eurasian harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Woylie with an average maximal age of 6.5 years
- Fat-tailed gerbil with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- Tiger quoll with an average maximal age of 5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Abbott’s duiker
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cephalophus spadix:
- Vicuña with a weight of 47.5 kilos (104.72 lbs)
- Australophocaena dioptrica with a weight of 65 kilos (143.3 lbs)
- Cougar with a weight of 53.93 kilos (118.9 lbs)
- Southern reedbuck with a weight of 57.94 kilos (127.74 lbs)
- Capybara with a weight of 47.5 kilos (104.72 lbs)
- Jentink’s duiker with a weight of 68 kilos (149.91 lbs)
- Sun bear with a weight of 57.04 kilos (125.75 lbs)
- Alpaca with a weight of 64.9 kilos (143.08 lbs)
- Caspian seal with a weight of 62.3 kilos (137.35 lbs)
- Northern fur seal with a weight of 55.58 kilos (122.53 lbs)