How many baby Maxwell’s duikers are in a litter?
A Maxwell’s duiker (Philantomba maxwellii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 205 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 827 grams (1.82 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Philantomba). An adult Maxwell’s duiker grows up to a size of 84.5 cm (2′ 10″).
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 Maxwell’s duiker (Philantomba maxwellii) is a small antelope found in western Africa.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Maxwell’s duiker is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Arabian gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Impala with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Günther’s dik-dik with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-fronted duiker becoming 19.67 years old
- Arabian oryx with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Zebra duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Anoa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Weyns’s duiker becoming 15.25 years old
- West Caucasian tur with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Maxwell’s duiker
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Railer bat
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat
- Red-shanked douc
- Maroon leaf monkey
- Sinaloan mastiff bat
- Merriam’s pocket gopher
- Grey rhebok
- Phayre’s leaf monkey
- Macleay’s dorcopsis
- Nabarlek
Animals that get as old as a Maxwell’s duiker
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12.25 years:
- Mountain nyala with 11 years
- Indian pangolin with 13.5 years
- Tasmanian pademelon with 10 years
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with 12 years
- Blanford’s fox with 10 years
- Hispaniolan solenodon with 11.33 years
- Jungle cat with 12 years
- Pronghorn with 12 years
- Gray brocket with 12 years
- Ground cuscus with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Maxwell’s duiker
What other animals weight around 8.56 kg (18.86 lbs)?
- Silvery lutung usually reaching 7.15 kgs (15.76 lbs)
- Aders’s duiker usually reaching 9.25 kgs (20.39 lbs)
- Grey-cheeked mangabey usually reaching 7.39 kgs (16.29 lbs)
- Collared mangabey usually reaching 7.29 kgs (16.07 lbs)
- Sarcophilus laniarius usually reaching 8.35 kgs (18.41 lbs)
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey usually reaching 7.6 kgs (16.76 lbs)
- Gee’s golden langur usually reaching 8.36 kgs (18.43 lbs)
- Maxwell’s duiker usually reaching 8.44 kgs (18.61 lbs)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey usually reaching 8.27 kgs (18.23 lbs)
- Pig-tailed langur usually reaching 7.39 kgs (16.29 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Maxwell’s duiker
Also reaching around 84.5 cm (2′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Dorcas gazelle gets as big as 96.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- North American porcupine gets as big as 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Sulawesi palm civet gets as big as 68.9 cm (2′ 4″)
- Red-fronted gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Chinese mountain cat gets as big as 78.6 cm (2′ 7″)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Canada lynx gets as big as 70.4 cm (2′ 4″)
- Giant armadillo gets as big as 87.4 cm (2′ 11″)
- Beira (antelope) gets as big as 77.9 cm (2′ 7″)
- Black snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 71.8 cm (2′ 5″)