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 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:
- Arabian oryx with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Giant eland becoming 16.17 years old
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bay duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ogilby’s duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red forest duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain goat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Markhor with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Blue wildebeest with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Oribi with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Aders’s duiker
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Ribbon seal
- Zempoaltepec deer mouse
- Woolly horseshoe bat
- Taphozous philippinensis
- Weddell seal
- Peale’s free-tailed bat
- Chital
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat
- Cape horseshoe bat
- Northern bettong
Animals that get as old as a Aders’s duiker
Other animals that usually reach the age of 4 years:
- Sminthopsis laniger with 3.25 years
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel with 4.25 years
- Steppe pika with 4 years
- Kultarr with 3.25 years
- Fat-tailed dunnart with 4.25 years
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with 3.75 years
- Southwestern water vole with 3.5 years
- Yellow-footed antechinus with 3.5 years
- Pallas’s pika with 4 years
- Bush rat with 3.42 years
Animals with the same weight as a Aders’s duiker
What other animals weight around 9.25 kg (20.39 lbs)?
- Preuss’s red colobus usually reaching 8.91 kgs (19.64 lbs)
- North American river otter usually reaching 8.09 kgs (17.84 lbs)
- Dingiso usually reaching 9.4 kgs (20.72 lbs)
- Sharpe’s grysbok usually reaching 9.37 kgs (20.66 lbs)
- Honey badger usually reaching 9 kgs (19.84 lbs)
- Aardwolf usually reaching 8.29 kgs (18.28 lbs)
- Mountain paca usually reaching 9 kgs (19.84 lbs)
- Assam macaque usually reaching 8.55 kgs (18.85 lbs)
- Tibetan macaque usually reaching 10.6 kgs (23.37 lbs)
- Patagonian mara usually reaching 8.03 kgs (17.7 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Aders’s duiker
Also reaching around 69 cm (2′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Otter civet gets as big as 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Ursine tree-kangaroo gets as big as 62.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- White-tailed mongoose gets as big as 57.3 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tres Marias raccoon gets as big as 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Arctic hare gets as big as 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Corsac fox gets as big as 58 cm (1′ 11″)
- Southern muriqui gets as big as 57.8 cm (1′ 11″)
- Indian crested porcupine gets as big as 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- North American beaver gets as big as 75.7 cm (2′ 6″)
- Fossa (animal) gets as big as 72.7 cm (2′ 5″)