How many baby Zebra duikers are in a litter?
A Zebra duiker (Cephalophus zebra) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 223 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1.7 kg (3.75 lbs) and measure 20 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Cephalophus). An adult Zebra duiker grows up to a size of 87.5 cm (2′ 11″).
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 zebra duiker (Cephalophus zebra) is a small antelope found primarily in Liberia, as well as the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, and occasionally Guinea. They are sometimes referred to as the banded duiker or striped-back duiker. It is believed to be one of the earliest duiker species to have evolved.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Zebra duiker is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Roan antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Takin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-fronted duiker becoming 19.67 years old
- Cuvier’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Aders’s duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Jentink’s duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Royal antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chinkara weighting around 18.91 kilograms (41.69 lbs)
- Anoa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mongolian gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Zebra duiker
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Shiny guinea pig
- Ozimops planiceps
- Zanzibar bushbaby
- Ruwenzori otter shrew
- Malagasy giant rat
- South American sea lion
- Greater false vampire bat
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine
- Peters’s flat-headed bat
- Javan rusa
Animals that get as old as a Zebra duiker
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12.17 years:
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with 9.75 years
- Asian small-clawed otter with 10.08 years
- Western tree hyrax with 10 years
- Crab-eating mongoose with 13.33 years
- Fishing cat with 10 years
- Allied rock-wallaby with 13 years
- Crab-eating raccoon with 14 years
- Javan warty pig with 14 years
- Heterohyrax antineae with 12 years
- Common dwarf mongoose with 10.92 years
Animals with the same weight as a Zebra duiker
What other animals weight around 15.53 kg (34.23 lbs)?
- Saudi gazelle usually reaching 16 kgs (35.27 lbs)
- Alpine musk deer usually reaching 13.6 kgs (29.98 lbs)
- Gray brocket usually reaching 16.63 kgs (36.66 lbs)
- Hamadryas baboon usually reaching 14.97 kgs (33 lbs)
- Ruwenzori duiker usually reaching 15 kgs (33.07 lbs)
- Gray brocket usually reaching 16.4 kgs (36.16 lbs)
- Clouded leopard usually reaching 15.02 kgs (33.11 lbs)
- Common duiker usually reaching 15.57 kgs (34.33 lbs)
- Ogilby’s duiker usually reaching 18.29 kgs (40.32 lbs)
- Mandrill usually reaching 16.74 kgs (36.91 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Zebra duiker
Also reaching around 87.5 cm (2′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Caracal gets as big as 74.1 cm (2′ 6″)
- Smooth-coated otter gets as big as 78.8 cm (2′ 8″)
- Maxwell’s duiker gets as big as 84.6 cm (2′ 10″)
- Drill (animal) gets as big as 70 cm (2′ 4″)
- Pacarana gets as big as 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Gray brocket gets as big as 92.3 cm (3′ 1″)
- African wild dog gets as big as 92.4 cm (3′ 1″)
- Asian golden cat gets as big as 89 cm (3′ 0″)
- Dorcas gazelle gets as big as 96.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- Thomson’s gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)