How big does a Common duiker get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Common duiker (Sylvicapra grimmia) reaches an average size of 96.1 cm (3′ 2″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 14.25 years, they grow from 1.58 kg (3.49 lbs) to 15.57 kg (34.33 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Common duikers have 1 babies about 2 times per year. The Common duiker (genus: Sylvicapra) 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 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.
Animals of the same family as a Common duiker
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Walia ibex with 1 babies per litter
- Mountain goat with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Oribi with a size of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Weyns’s duiker with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Chinkara bringing 18.91 kilos (41.69 lbs) to the scale
- Thomson’s gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Himalayan tahr with 1 babies per litter
- Grey rhebok with 1 babies per litter
- Sheep with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
Animals with the same size as a Common duiker
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Common duiker:
- Black-fronted duiker with a size of 94.4 cm (3′ 2″)
- African civet with a size of 79.2 cm (2′ 8″)
- Steenbok with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Maxwell’s duiker with a size of 84.6 cm (2′ 10″)
- Roan antelope with a size of 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Alpine musk deer with a size of 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Springbok with a size of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Wolverine with a size of 77.3 cm (2′ 7″)
- White-lipped peccary with a size of 1.11 meter (3′ 8″)
- Bornean orangutan with a size of 89 cm (3′ 0″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Common duiker
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Common duiker:
- Klipspringer
- Long-legged bat
- Dormer’s bat
- Galápagos fur seal
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat
- African manatee
- Southeastern myotis
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis
- Red-fronted gazelle
- Four-toed elephant shrew
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Common duiker
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Common duiker:
- Pampas fox with an average maximal age of 13.67 years
- Nabarlek with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Harbour porpoise with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Cape ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Quokka with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Bay duiker with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Gray brocket with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Parti-coloured bat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Cape genet with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Rhim gazelle with an average maximal age of 14 years
Animals with the same weight as a Common duiker
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sylvicapra grimmia:
- Wolverine with a weight of 12.8 kilos (28.22 lbs)
- Indian muntjac with a weight of 17.51 kilos (38.6 lbs)
- Mandrill with a weight of 16.74 kilos (36.91 lbs)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 13.5 kilos (29.76 lbs)
- Ruwenzori duiker with a weight of 15 kilos (33.07 lbs)
- Dwarf brocket with a weight of 16.04 kilos (35.36 lbs)
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with a weight of 12.61 kilos (27.8 lbs)
- Water deer with a weight of 12.73 kilos (28.06 lbs)
- Drill (animal) with a weight of 14.23 kilos (31.37 lbs)
- Klipspringer with a weight of 13.46 kilos (29.67 lbs)