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How many babies does a Aders’s duiker have at once? (litter size)

How many baby Aders’s duikers are in a litter?

A Aders’s duiker (Cephalophus adersi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.

Each of those little ones spend around 120 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 239 grams (0.53 lbs) and measure 20 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Cephalophus). An adult Aders’s duiker grows up to a size of 69 cm (2′ 4″).

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 average litter size of a Aders's duiker is 1

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.

Other animals of the family Bovidae

Aders’s duiker is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:

Animals that share a litter size with Aders’s duiker

Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:

Animals that get as old as a Aders’s duiker

Other animals that usually reach the age of 4 years:

Animals with the same weight as a Aders’s duiker

What other animals weight around 9.25 kg (20.39 lbs)?

Animals with the same size as a Aders’s duiker

Also reaching around 69 cm (2′ 4″) in size do these animals: