How many baby Red forest duikers are in a litter?
A Red forest duiker (Cephalophus natalensis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 212 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 956 grams (2.11 lbs) and measure 20 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Cephalophus). An adult Red forest duiker grows up to a size of 78.7 cm (2′ 7″).
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 forest duiker, Natal duiker, or Natal red duiker (Cephalophus natalensis) is a small antelope found in central to southern Africa. It is one of 22 extant species form the subfamily Cephalophinae. While the red forest duiker is very similar to the common duiker, it is smaller in size and has a distinguishing reddish coloring. Additionally, the red forest duiker favors a denser bush habitat than the common duiker. The Natal red duiker is more diurnal and less secretive than most forest duikers, so therefore it is easier for them to be observed. In 1999, red forest duikers had an estimated wild population of 42,000 individuals.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Red forest duiker is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Mountain nyala with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Himalayan goral with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Jentink’s duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sumatran serow with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rhim gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dama gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Giant eland becoming 16.17 years old
- European bison with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common eland with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Iberian ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Red forest duiker
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Himalayan tahr
- Cape serotine
- Whiskered flying squirrel
- African manatee
- Hispaniolan solenodon
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat
- Hirola
- Peters’s flat-headed bat
- Tufted deer
- Mongoose lemur
Animals that get as old as a Red forest duiker
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15 years:
- Hirola with 15.17 years
- Black-footed mongoose with 15.83 years
- Silvery marmoset with 16.75 years
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with 14 years
- Gray mouse lemur with 15.5 years
- White-tailed mongoose with 12 years
- Antilopine kangaroo with 16 years
- Allied rock-wallaby with 13 years
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby with 12 years
- Silver-haired bat with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Red forest duiker
What other animals weight around 12.36 kg (27.25 lbs)?
- Capped langur usually reaching 11.21 kgs (24.71 lbs)
- Tibetan macaque usually reaching 10.6 kgs (23.37 lbs)
- Siamang usually reaching 10.84 kgs (23.9 lbs)
- Black-footed gray langur usually reaching 10.03 kgs (22.11 lbs)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 12.3 kgs (27.12 lbs)
- Black-shanked douc usually reaching 10.33 kgs (22.77 lbs)
- Pygathrix bieti usually reaching 11 kgs (24.25 lbs)
- Northern plains gray langur usually reaching 12.64 kgs (27.87 lbs)
- African golden cat usually reaching 11.29 kgs (24.89 lbs)
- Ocelot usually reaching 11.89 kgs (26.21 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Red forest duiker
Also reaching around 78.7 cm (2′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Aders’s duiker gets as big as 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- Malabar large-spotted civet gets as big as 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Wolverine gets as big as 77.3 cm (2′ 7″)
- Water chevrotain gets as big as 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Siberian musk deer gets as big as 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Beira (antelope) gets as big as 77.9 cm (2′ 7″)
- Gray brocket gets as big as 91.8 cm (3′ 1″)
- Lowland paca gets as big as 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Ocelot gets as big as 74.6 cm (2′ 6″)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)