How many baby Günther’s dik-diks are in a litter?
A Günther’s dik-dik (Madoqua guentheri) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 175 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 684 grams (1.51 lbs) and measure 3.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Madoqua). An adult Günther’s dik-dik grows up to a size of 61.2 cm (2′ 1″).
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.
Günther’s dik-dik (Madoqua guentheri) is a small antelope found in arid zones of East Africa.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Günther’s dik-dik is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Walia ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Anoa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chamois with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tibetan antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Markhor with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Springbok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Weyns’s duiker becoming 15.25 years old
- Scimitar oryx with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chinkara weighting around 18.91 kilograms (41.69 lbs)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Günther’s dik-dik
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Montane fish-eating rat
- Micronomus
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat
- Atlantic titi
- Dormer’s bat
- Insular horseshoe bat
- Macroscelides proboscideus
- Little forest bat
- Agile gibbon
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
Animals that get as old as a Günther’s dik-dik
Other animals that usually reach the age of 14 years:
- Guinea pig with 14.75 years
- Indian pangolin with 13.5 years
- Desmarest’s hutia with 11.33 years
- Antilopine kangaroo with 16 years
- Hispaniolan solenodon with 11.33 years
- Sharpe’s grysbok with 14 years
- Weyns’s duiker with 15.25 years
- White-tailed mongoose with 12 years
- California myotis with 15 years
- Ground cuscus with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Günther’s dik-dik
What other animals weight around 4.61 kg (10.16 lbs)?
- Spotted-necked otter usually reaching 4.19 kgs (9.24 lbs)
- Brown-throated sloth usually reaching 4 kgs (8.82 lbs)
- Chinese mountain cat usually reaching 5.49 kgs (12.1 lbs)
- Sechuran fox usually reaching 4.23 kgs (9.33 lbs)
- Grivet usually reaching 3.86 kgs (8.51 lbs)
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.55 kgs (10.03 lbs)
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby usually reaching 4.95 kgs (10.91 lbs)
- Hairy long-nosed armadillo usually reaching 4.44 kgs (9.79 lbs)
- Olive colobus usually reaching 3.98 kgs (8.77 lbs)
- Red panda usually reaching 5.17 kgs (11.4 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Günther’s dik-dik
Also reaching around 61.2 cm (2′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Cape fox gets as big as 53.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Pallas’s cat gets as big as 57.3 cm (1′ 11″)
- Giant forest genet gets as big as 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Andean mountain cat gets as big as 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Bush dog gets as big as 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Mantled howler gets as big as 57.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Crested servaline genet gets as big as 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Greater mouse-deer gets as big as 56.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Agile wallaby gets as big as 64.6 cm (2′ 2″)
- Scrub hare gets as big as 49.5 cm (1′ 8″)