How many baby Kirk’s dik-diks are in a litter?
A Kirk’s dik-dik (Madoqua kirkii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 171 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 626 grams (1.38 lbs) and measure 3.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Madoqua). An adult Kirk’s dik-dik grows up to a size of 65.5 cm (2′ 2″).
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.
Kirk’s dik-dik (Madoqua kirkii) is a small antelope native to Eastern Africa and one of four species of dik-dik antelope. It is believed to have six subspecies and possibly a seventh existing in southwest Africa. Dik-diks are herbivores, typically of a fawn color that aids in camouflaging themselves in savannah habitats. According to MacDonald (1985), they are also capable of reaching speeds up to 42 km/hour. The lifespan of Kirk’s dik-dik in the wild is typically 5 years, but may surpass 10 years. In captivity, males have been known to live up to 16.5 years, while females have lived up to 18.4 years.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Kirk’s dik-dik is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Sharpe’s grysbok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Blackbuck with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common tsessebe with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Royal antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hirola with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Waterbuck with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nilgiri tahr with 1 babies per pregnancy
- European bison with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dibatag with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain nyala with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Kirk’s dik-dik
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Kitti’s hog-nosed bat
- Lemur-like ringtail possum
- Kloss’s gibbon
- Black dorcopsis
- Malagasy civet
- Climbing shrew
- Gray bat
- Llama
- Tree bat
- Goitered gazelle
Animals that get as old as a Kirk’s dik-dik
Other animals that usually reach the age of 16.5 years:
- Northern bat with 15.5 years
- White-nosed coati with 17.67 years
- Australian sea lion with 16 years
- Lesser kudu with 18.92 years
- La Plata dolphin with 16 years
- Beech marten with 18.08 years
- Keen’s myotis with 18.5 years
- Hog badger with 13.92 years
- Clouded leopard with 17 years
- Dorcas gazelle with 17.42 years
Animals with the same weight as a Kirk’s dik-dik
What other animals weight around 4.8 kg (10.59 lbs)?
- Greater spot-nosed monkey usually reaching 5.26 kgs (11.6 lbs)
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo usually reaching 4.06 kgs (8.95 lbs)
- Olive colobus usually reaching 3.98 kgs (8.77 lbs)
- Red-legged pademelon usually reaching 4.53 kgs (9.99 lbs)
- Chinese mountain cat usually reaching 5.49 kgs (12.1 lbs)
- Proserpine rock-wallaby usually reaching 5.6 kgs (12.35 lbs)
- Preuss’s monkey usually reaching 5.14 kgs (11.33 lbs)
- Pileated gibbon usually reaching 5.57 kgs (12.28 lbs)
- Brazilian porcupine usually reaching 4.12 kgs (9.08 lbs)
- Unadorned rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.56 kgs (10.05 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Kirk’s dik-dik
Also reaching around 65.5 cm (2′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Gray snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Water chevrotain gets as big as 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Neotropical otter gets as big as 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Bristle-spined rat gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Cape fox gets as big as 53.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Western red colobus gets as big as 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Northern plains gray langur gets as big as 61 cm (2′ 1″)
- European badger gets as big as 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Fishing cat gets as big as 77.9 cm (2′ 7″)
- Masked palm civet gets as big as 63.4 cm (2′ 1″)