How many baby Red-flanked duikers are in a litter?
A Red-flanked duiker (Cephalophus rufilatus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 233 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 976 grams (2.15 lbs) and measure 20 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Cephalophus). An adult Red-flanked duiker grows up to a size of 65 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.
The red-flanked duiker (Cephalophus rufilatus) is a species of small antelope found in western and central Africa in countries as far apart as Senegal and Sudan. Red-flanked duikers grow to almost 15 in (35 cm) in height and weigh up to 31 lb (14 kg). They have russet coats, with greyish-black legs and backs, and white underbellies. They feed on leaves, fallen fruits, seeds and flowers, and sometimes twigs and shoots. The adults are territorial, living in savannah and lightly wooded habitats, and the females usually produce a single offspring each year. They have lifespans of ten to fifteen years in captivity.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Red-flanked duiker is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Greater kudu with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Argali with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red gazelle weighting around 40 kilograms (88.18 lbs)
- Hartebeest with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lechwe with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-bellied duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed goral becoming 13.17 years old
- Iberian ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-fronted gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Weyns’s duiker becoming 15.25 years old
Animals that share a litter size with Red-flanked duiker
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Guatemalan deer mouse
- Lander’s horseshoe bat
- Schneider’s leaf-nosed bat
- La Plata dolphin
- Long-tailed pangolin
- Blackish deer mouse
- Southern marsupial mole
- Big-eared flying fox
- Western rock elephant shrew
- Green acouchi
Animals that get as old as a Red-flanked duiker
Other animals that usually reach the age of 9.5 years:
- Long-footed potoroo with 10 years
- Black-tailed prairie dog with 8.5 years
- Yellow-bellied marmot with 8 years
- Northern treeshrew with 10 years
- Banded linsang with 10.67 years
- Sarcophilus laniarius with 8.17 years
- Common kusimanse with 9 years
- Hispaniolan hutia with 9.83 years
- Edible dormouse with 9 years
- Parma wallaby with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Red-flanked duiker
What other animals weight around 12.06 kg (26.58 lbs)?
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo usually reaching 10.48 kgs (23.1 lbs)
- Tibetan macaque usually reaching 10.6 kgs (23.37 lbs)
- Beira (antelope) usually reaching 10.91 kgs (24.05 lbs)
- Coyote usually reaching 12 kgs (26.46 lbs)
- Malabar large-spotted civet usually reaching 12.08 kgs (26.63 lbs)
- Pacarana usually reaching 12.5 kgs (27.56 lbs)
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo usually reaching 12.61 kgs (27.8 lbs)
- Capped langur usually reaching 11.21 kgs (24.71 lbs)
- Binturong usually reaching 13 kgs (28.66 lbs)
- Serval usually reaching 11.9 kgs (26.23 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Red-flanked duiker
Also reaching around 65 cm (2′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- François’ langur gets as big as 58.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Blue duiker gets as big as 69.3 cm (2′ 4″)
- Small-toothed palm civet gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Bat-eared fox gets as big as 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Agile gibbon gets as big as 54.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Aders’s duiker gets as big as 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- Eastern falanouc gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Silvery gibbon gets as big as 67.6 cm (2′ 3″)
- Lar gibbon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Thick-spined porcupine gets as big as 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)