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How much does a Jentink’s duiker weight?

It is hard to guess what a Jentink’s duiker weights. But we have the answer:

An adult Jentink’s duiker (Cephalophus jentinki) on average weights 68 kg (149.9 lbs).

The Jentink’s duiker is from the family Bovidae (genus: Cephalophus). It is usually born with about 4.59 kg (10.11 lbs). They can live for up to 17.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.35 meter (4′ 6″). Usually, Jentink’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 average adult weight of a Jentink's duiker is 68 kg (149.9 lbs)

Jentink’s duiker (Cephalophus jentinki), also known as gidi-gidi in Krio and kaikulowulei in Mende, is a forest-dwelling duiker found in the southern parts of Liberia, southwestern Côte d’Ivoire, and scattered enclaves in Sierra Leone. It is named in honor of Fredericus Anna Jentink.Jentink’s duikers stand around 80 cm (31 in) tall at the shoulder and weigh about 70 kg (150 lb), making them the largest species of the duikers. They are gray from the shoulders back and dark black from the shoulders forward. A white band goes over the shoulders, between the two colours and joining the white undersides. Jentink’s duikers have long, thin horns, which curl back a little at the ends, and reach between 14 and 21 cm (5.5 and 8.3 in).Jentink’s duikers live mainly in very thick rainforest, where they eat fruit, flowers, and leaves which have fallen from the canopy, as well as stems of seedlings, roots, and, to the annoyance of local farmers, palm nuts, mangos, and cocoa pods. They are nocturnal and shelter during the day in dense thickets, or buttress roots, apparently in pairs. Jentink’s duikers are reported to be territorial animals, and when frightened, will run very quickly, but wear themselves out easily.The species was first recognized as a new species in 1884, though it was not described until 1892. The species then vanished until a skull was found in Liberia in 1948. Sightings have occurred in its habitat since the 1960s. In 1971, the species was successfully bred in the Gladys Porter Zoo.Recent population numbers are not available. In 1999 it was estimated that around 3,500 Jentink’s duikers remained in the wild, but the following year others suggested less than 2,000 were likely to remain. They are threatened primarily by habitat destruction and commercial bushmeat hunters.

Animals of the same family as a Jentink’s duiker

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Animals with the same weight as a Jentink’s duiker

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Animals with the same size as a Jentink’s duiker

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

Animals with the same litter size as a Jentink’s duiker

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

Animals with the same life expectancy as a Jentink’s duiker

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