How many baby Ogilby’s duikers are in a litter?
A Ogilby’s duiker (Cephalophus ogilbyi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 121 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1.94 kg (4.28 lbs) and measure 20 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Cephalophus). An adult Ogilby’s duiker grows up to a size of 100 cm (3′ 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.
Ogilby’s duiker (Cephalophus ogilbyi) is a small antelope found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, southeastern Nigeria, Bioko Island and possibly Gabon. No subspecies are recognized.The two former subspecies, the white-legged duiker Cephalophus crusalbum and the Brooke’s duiker Cephalophus brookei, are considered as distinct species since 2011.Ogilby’s duikers weigh up to 20 kg (44 lb) and have a shoulder height of up to 56 cm (22 in). They vary in color from chestnut to mahogany to deep brown, and have massive hindquarters typical of duikers.Ogilby’s duikers live mainly in high-altitude rainforests, where they feed mainly on fallen fruit.The total population is estimated at 12,000 individuals.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Ogilby’s duiker is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Tamaraw with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red hartebeest becoming 15.25 years old
- Gayal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Blue duiker becoming 12 years old
- Cattle becoming 20 years old
- Urial with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lechwe with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Iberian ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Przewalski’s gazelle weighting around 27.5 kilograms (60.63 lbs)
- Maxwell’s duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Ogilby’s duiker
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Maned rat
- Dama gazelle
- Southern dog-faced bat
- Verreaux’s sifaka
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby
- Javan rhinoceros
- Himalayan goral
- Kolan vole
- Kivu shrew
- Tibetan macaque
Animals with the same weight as a Ogilby’s duiker
What other animals weight around 18.29 kg (40.33 lbs)?
- Little red brocket usually reaching 21.05 kgs (46.41 lbs)
- Mérida brocket usually reaching 16.5 kgs (36.38 lbs)
- Peters’s duiker usually reaching 18.94 kgs (41.76 lbs)
- Lesser capybara usually reaching 21.27 kgs (46.89 lbs)
- Bay duiker usually reaching 20 kgs (44.09 lbs)
- Cameroon clawless otter usually reaching 21.6 kgs (47.62 lbs)
- Indian muntjac usually reaching 17.51 kgs (38.6 lbs)
- Zebra duiker usually reaching 15.53 kgs (34.24 lbs)
- Yellow baboon usually reaching 15.82 kgs (34.88 lbs)
- Eurasian beaver usually reaching 19 kgs (41.89 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Ogilby’s duiker
Also reaching around 100 cm (3′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Speke’s gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Siamang gets as big as 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Brown hyena gets as big as 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Maxwell’s duiker gets as big as 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Common duiker gets as big as 96.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- Bornean orangutan gets as big as 89 cm (3′ 0″)
- Cameroon clawless otter gets as big as 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Short-eared dog gets as big as 83.3 cm (2′ 9″)
- Red-fronted gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Iberian lynx gets as big as 96.3 cm (3′ 2″)