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Aders’s duiker size: How big do they get?

How big does a Aders’s duiker get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:

A grown Aders’s duiker (Cephalophus adersi) reaches an average size of 69 cm (2′ 4″).

When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 4 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 9.25 kg (20.39 lbs). A Aders’s duiker has 1 babies at once. The Aders’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 average adult size of a Aders's duiker is (2' 4

The Aders’s duiker (Cephalophus adersi), also known as nunga in Swahili, kunga marara in Kipokomo and harake in Giriama, is a small, forest-dwelling duiker found only in Zanzibar and Kenya. It may be a subspecies of the red, Harvey’s, or Peters’s duiker or a hybrid of a combination of these. It is named after Dr. W. Mansfield Aders, a zoologist with the Zanzibar Government Service.

Animals of the same family as a Aders’s duiker

We found other animals of the Bovidae family:

Animals with the same size as a Aders’s duiker

Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Aders’s duiker:

Animals with the same litter size as a Aders’s duiker

Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Aders’s duiker:

Animals with the same life expectancy as a Aders’s duiker

Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Aders’s duiker:

Animals with the same weight as a Aders’s duiker

As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cephalophus adersi: