How many baby Yellow-backed duikers are in a litter?
A Yellow-backed duiker (Cephalophus silvicultor) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 234 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4.41 kg (9.71 lbs) and measure 20 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Cephalophus). An adult Yellow-backed duiker grows up to a size of 1.32 meter (4′ 5″).
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 yellow-backed duiker (Cephalophus silvicultor) is a forest dwelling antelope in the order Artiodactyla from the family Bovidae. Yellow-backed duikers are the most widely distributed of all duikers. They are found mainly in Central and Western Africa, ranging from Senegal to Western Uganda with possibly a few in Gambia. Their range also extends southward into Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire, and most of Zambia.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Yellow-backed duiker is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Royal antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser kudu with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Anoa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Arabian oryx with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hirola with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Blue wildebeest with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Przewalski’s gazelle weighting around 27.5 kilograms (60.63 lbs)
- Chinkara weighting around 18.91 kilograms (41.69 lbs)
- Common tsessebe with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain goat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Yellow-backed duiker
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat
- Hirola
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby
- Indian muntjac
- Horse
- Ashy black titi
- Spotted giant flying squirrel
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo
- Wedge-capped capuchin
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby
Animals that get as old as a Yellow-backed duiker
Other animals that usually reach the age of 17.25 years:
- Red-rumped agouti with 17.75 years
- South African springhare with 14.5 years
- Black wildebeest with 20 years
- Six-banded armadillo with 18.75 years
- Günther’s dik-dik with 14 years
- Patagonian mara with 14 years
- Red river hog with 20 years
- Roan antelope with 20 years
- Springbok with 20 years
- Senegal bushbaby with 17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-backed duiker
What other animals weight around 61.65 kg (135.92 lbs)?
- Dama gazelle usually reaching 70.4 kgs (155.21 lbs)
- Sika deer usually reaching 53 kgs (116.84 lbs)
- Caspian seal usually reaching 62.3 kgs (137.35 lbs)
- Cougar usually reaching 53.93 kgs (118.9 lbs)
- West Caucasian tur usually reaching 60.73 kgs (133.89 lbs)
- Mountain goat usually reaching 71.84 kgs (158.38 lbs)
- Puku usually reaching 71.23 kgs (157.04 lbs)
- Dall sheep usually reaching 70 kgs (154.32 lbs)
- Ringed seal usually reaching 70.96 kgs (156.44 lbs)
- Commerson’s dolphin usually reaching 72.4 kgs (159.61 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Yellow-backed duiker
Also reaching around 1.32 meter (4′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Oribi gets as big as 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Vaquita gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Southern reedbuck gets as big as 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Harbour porpoise gets as big as 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Sika deer gets as big as 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Sun bear gets as big as 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Mule deer gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Pronghorn gets as big as 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)
- Bohor reedbuck gets as big as 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- South Andean deer gets as big as 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)