It is hard to guess what a Abbott’s duiker weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Abbott’s duiker (Cephalophus spadix) on average weights 56.68 kg (124.96 lbs).
The Abbott’s duiker is from the family Bovidae (genus: Cephalophus). They can live for up to 5.42 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.18 meter (3′ 11″).
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The Abbott’s duiker (Cephalophus spadix), also known as minde in Swahili, is a large, forest-dwelling duiker (small antelope) found only in a few scattered enclaves in Tanzania. It may be a subspecies of the yellow-backed duiker. It is very rare, and the first photograph of an Abbott’s duiker in the wild was taken as recently as 2003.
Animals of the same family as a Abbott’s duiker
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Kouprey bringing 788.66 kilos (1738.7 lbs) to the scale
- Bluebuck bringing 150 kilos (330.69 lbs) to the scale
- Sitatunga bringing 75.28 kilos (165.96 lbs) to the scale
- Giant eland bringing 644.51 kilos (1420.9 lbs) to the scale
- Snow sheep bringing 90 kilos (198.42 lbs) to the scale
- Rhim gazelle bringing 24.47 kilos (53.95 lbs) to the scale
- Oribi bringing 17.16 kilos (37.83 lbs) to the scale
- Weyns’s duiker with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Goat bringing 47.14 kilos (103.93 lbs) to the scale
- Dwarf blue sheep bringing 29.27 kilos (64.53 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Abbott’s duiker
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cephalophus spadix:
- Celebes warty pig with a weight of 53.46 kilos (117.86 lbs)
- Grant’s gazelle with a weight of 55.46 kilos (122.27 lbs)
- Fallow deer with a weight of 56.71 kilos (125.02 lbs)
- Javan rusa with a weight of 66.38 kilos (146.34 lbs)
- Bharal with a weight of 52.16 kilos (114.99 lbs)
- Spinner dolphin with a weight of 50.5 kilos (111.33 lbs)
- West Caucasian tur with a weight of 60.73 kilos (133.89 lbs)
- Capybara with a weight of 48.14 kilos (106.13 lbs)
- Bornean orangutan with a weight of 52.97 kilos (116.78 lbs)
- Caspian seal with a weight of 62.3 kilos (137.35 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Abbott’s duiker
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Abbott’s duiker:
- White-bellied duiker with a size of 94 cm (3′ 2″)
- Baikal seal with a size of 1.27 meter (4′ 3″)
- Bornean bearded pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Giant anteater with a size of 1.12 meter (3′ 9″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Bharal with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Ringed seal with a size of 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
- Indian muntjac with a size of 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Red river hog with a size of 1.37 meter (4′ 6″)
- Goa (antelope) with a size of 98 cm (3′ 3″)
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Abbott’s duiker
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Abbott’s duiker:
- Desert hedgehog with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Coruro with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Central African oyan with an average maximal age of 5.33 years
- Collared pika with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Southern long-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Dark kangaroo mouse with an average maximal age of 5.42 years
- Bahamian hutia with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Northern grasshopper mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Mountain pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 5 years