How much does a Bates's pygmy antelope weight?

It is hard to guess what a Bates’s pygmy antelope weights. But we have the answer:

An adult Bates’s pygmy antelope (Neotragus batesi) on average weights 2.96 kg (6.53 lbs).

The Bates’s pygmy antelope is from the family Bovidae (genus: Neotragus). It is usually born with about 499 grams (1.1 lbs). They can live for up to 14 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 54 cm (1′ 10″). Usually, Bates’s pygmy antelopes 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.

Bates’s pygmy antelope (Neotragus batesi), also known as the dwarf antelope, pygmy antelope or Bates’ dwarf antelope, is a very small antelope living in the moist forest and brush of Central and West Africa. It is in the same genus as the suni and the royal antelope.

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Animals of the same family as a Bates’s pygmy antelope

We found other animals of the Bovidae family:

Speke’s gazelle bringing 20 kilos (44.09 lbs) to the scale
Himalayan goral bringing 28.75 kilos (63.38 lbs) to the scale
Kirk’s dik-dik bringing 4.8 kilos (10.58 lbs) to the scale
Lechwe bringing 88.02 kilos (194.05 lbs) to the scale
Mountain goat bringing 71.84 kilos (158.38 lbs) to the scale
Royal antelope bringing 3.9 kilos (8.6 lbs) to the scale
Hartebeest bringing 162.47 kilos (358.18 lbs) to the scale
Four-horned antelope bringing 19.19 kilos (42.31 lbs) to the scale
Sharpe’s grysbok bringing 9.37 kilos (20.66 lbs) to the scale
Queen of Sheba’s gazelle bringing 48.5 kilos (106.92 lbs) to the scale

Animals with the same weight as a Bates’s pygmy antelope

As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neotragus batesi:

Red lemur with a weight of 2.39 kilos (5.27 lbs)
Kodkod with a weight of 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs)
Yellow-throated marten with a weight of 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs)
Marbled cat with a weight of 2.83 kilos (6.24 lbs)
Long-tailed pangolin with a weight of 2.75 kilos (6.06 lbs)
Crab-eating mongoose with a weight of 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs)
White-tailed jackrabbit with a weight of 3.38 kilos (7.45 lbs)
Golden palm civet with a weight of 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs)
South African springhare with a weight of 2.55 kilos (5.62 lbs)
Woolly hare with a weight of 2.47 kilos (5.45 lbs)

Animals with the same size as a Bates’s pygmy antelope

Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bates’s pygmy antelope:

Allen’s swamp monkey with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
Asian small-clawed otter with a size of 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
Philippine porcupine with a size of 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
White-striped dorcopsis with a size of 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
Diana monkey with a size of 47 cm (1′ 7″)
Ground cuscus with a size of 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
European hare with a size of 52.6 cm (1′ 9″)
Black-footed mongoose with a size of 61.3 cm (2′ 1″)
Malagasy civet with a size of 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
Campbell’s mona monkey with a size of 45.5 cm (1′ 6″)

Animals with the same litter size as a Bates’s pygmy antelope

Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Bates’s pygmy antelope:

Animals with the same life expectancy as a Bates’s pygmy antelope

Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Bates’s pygmy antelope:

Zebra duiker with an average maximal age of 12.17 years
Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with an average maximal age of 14 years
Gray fox with an average maximal age of 15 years
Arctocephalus forsteri with an average maximal age of 15 years
Tricolored bat with an average maximal age of 15 years
Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
La Plata dolphin with an average maximal age of 16 years
Markhor with an average maximal age of 14 years
Java mouse-deer with an average maximal age of 12 years
Red-fronted gazelle with an average maximal age of 13.5 years