How big does a Harnessed bushbuck get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Harnessed bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus) reaches an average size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 13 years, they grow from 3.03 kg (6.69 lbs) to 43.28 kg (95.4 lbs). A Harnessed bushbuck has 1 babies at once. The Harnessed bushbuck (genus: Tragelaphus) 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 harnessed bushbuck or kéwel (Tragelaphus scriptus) is a small to medium-sized antelope widespread in west and central Africa. Formerly and alongside the Cape bushbuck it was generically known as the bushbuck, however, it has since been found to be a species in its own right, with a separate geographic distribution. Of all the other tragelaphine antelopes, the harnessed bushbuck is most closely related to the nyala (Tragelaphus angasi).
Animals of the same family as a Harnessed bushbuck
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Dama gazelle with a size of 1.46 meter (4′ 10″)
- Sable antelope with a size of 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)
- Blue wildebeest with a size of 2.01 meter (6′ 8″)
- Chinkara bringing 18.91 kilos (41.69 lbs) to the scale
- Bontebok with 1 babies per litter
- Maxwell’s duiker with a size of 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Red gazelle bringing 40 kilos (88.18 lbs) to the scale
- Ruwenzori duiker bringing 15 kilos (33.07 lbs) to the scale
- Arabian oryx with 1 babies per litter
- Bohor reedbuck with a size of 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
Animals with the same size as a Harnessed bushbuck
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Harnessed bushbuck:
- Javan warty pig with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Philippine deer with a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Arabian tahr with a size of 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)
- Common warthog with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with a size of 99.9 cm (3′ 4″)
- Cheetah with a size of 1.48 meter (4′ 11″)
- Impala with a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- Brown bear with a size of 1.49 meter (4′ 11″)
- Giant anteater with a size of 1.12 meter (3′ 9″)
- Dama gazelle with a size of 1.46 meter (4′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Harnessed bushbuck
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Harnessed bushbuck:
- Little red flying fox
- Rock-haunting ringtail possum
- Tree bat
- Four-striped ground squirrel
- Malayan porcupine
- Nilgiri langur
- White-tailed deer
- Pennant’s colobus
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat
- Madagascan rousette
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Harnessed bushbuck
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Harnessed bushbuck:
- Swamp wallaby with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Sugar glider with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Desert rat-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Greater hedgehog tenrec with an average maximal age of 10.5 years
- Common noctule with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Greater fairy armadillo with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Malayan civet with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Cape genet with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Banded mongoose with an average maximal age of 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Harnessed bushbuck
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tragelaphus scriptus:
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a weight of 41.58 kilos (91.67 lbs)
- Sumatran orangutan with a weight of 39.7 kilos (87.52 lbs)
- Giant armadillo with a weight of 41.33 kilos (91.12 lbs)
- Philippine deer with a weight of 49.46 kilos (109.04 lbs)
- Sheep with a weight of 37.47 kilos (82.61 lbs)
- Blackbuck with a weight of 36.1 kilos (79.59 lbs)
- Hector’s dolphin with a weight of 50 kilos (110.23 lbs)
- Red kangaroo with a weight of 38.98 kilos (85.94 lbs)
- Giant muntjac with a weight of 36.69 kilos (80.89 lbs)
- Goat with a weight of 47.14 kilos (103.93 lbs)