It is hard to guess what a Aders’s duiker weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Aders’s duiker (Cephalophus adersi) on average weights 9.25 kg (20.39 lbs).
The Aders’s duiker is from the family Bovidae (genus: Cephalophus). They can live for up to 4 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 69 cm (2′ 4″). Usually, Aders’s duikers have 1 babies per litter.
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 Aders’s duiker (Cephalophus adersi), also known as nunga in Swahili, kunga marara in Kipokomo and harake in Giriama, is a small, forest-dwelling duiker found only in Zanzibar and Kenya. It may be a subspecies of the red, Harvey’s, or Peters’s duiker or a hybrid of a combination of these. It is named after Dr. W. Mansfield Aders, a zoologist with the Zanzibar Government Service.
Animals of the same family as a Aders’s duiker
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Anoa bringing 256 kilos (564.38 lbs) to the scale
- West Caucasian tur bringing 60.73 kilos (133.89 lbs) to the scale
- Red-fronted gazelle bringing 27 kilos (59.52 lbs) to the scale
- Himalayan tahr bringing 68.26 kilos (150.49 lbs) to the scale
- Long-tailed goral bringing 27 kilos (59.52 lbs) to the scale
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest bringing 168.7 kilos (371.92 lbs) to the scale
- Gayal bringing 800.07 kilos (1763.85 lbs) to the scale
- Suni bringing 5.63 kilos (12.41 lbs) to the scale
- Dibatag bringing 28.05 kilos (61.84 lbs) to the scale
- Harvey’s duiker bringing 14.5 kilos (31.97 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Aders’s duiker
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cephalophus adersi:
- North American river otter with a weight of 8.09 kilos (17.84 lbs)
- Siamang with a weight of 10.9 kilos (24.03 lbs)
- Sarcophilus laniarius with a weight of 8.35 kilos (18.41 lbs)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a weight of 8.23 kilos (18.14 lbs)
- François’ langur with a weight of 8.16 kilos (17.99 lbs)
- Pennant’s colobus with a weight of 10.9 kilos (24.03 lbs)
- Maxwell’s duiker with a weight of 8.44 kilos (18.61 lbs)
- Ursine colobus with a weight of 7.7 kilos (16.98 lbs)
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo with a weight of 10.48 kilos (23.1 lbs)
- Roosevelt’s muntjac with a weight of 10.76 kilos (23.72 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Aders’s duiker
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Aders’s duiker:
- Owston’s palm civet with a size of 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Bonobo with a size of 75.3 cm (2′ 6″)
- Red fox with a size of 62.9 cm (2′ 1″)
- Smooth-coated otter with a size of 78.8 cm (2′ 8″)
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with a size of 71.7 cm (2′ 5″)
- African golden cat with a size of 79.9 cm (2′ 8″)
- Sarcophilus laniarius with a size of 55.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- African clawless otter with a size of 80.9 cm (2′ 8″)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a size of 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Canada lynx with a size of 70.4 cm (2′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Aders’s duiker
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Aders’s duiker:
- Northern olingo
- Greater musky fruit bat
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey
- Gayal
- Grey-cheeked mangabey
- Blackbuck
- Chamois
- Melck’s house bat
- Eastern white-eared giant rat
- Klipspringer
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Aders’s duiker
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Aders’s duiker:
- Black-footed tree-rat with an average maximal age of 3.83 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.67 years
- Günther’s vole with an average maximal age of 3.83 years
- Desert hedgehog with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Field vole with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Steppe pika with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Lesser mole-rat with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Great gerbil with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk with an average maximal age of 3.33 years