It is hard to guess what a Maxwell’s duiker weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Maxwell’s duiker (Cephalophus maxwellii) on average weights 8.44 kg (18.61 lbs).
The Maxwell’s duiker is from the family Bovidae (genus: Cephalophus). It is usually born with about 828 grams (1.83 lbs). They can live for up to 12.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 84.6 cm (2′ 10″). Usually, Maxwell’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 Maxwell’s duiker (Philantomba maxwellii) is a small antelope found in western Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Maxwell’s duiker
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Przewalski’s gazelle bringing 27.5 kilos (60.63 lbs) to the scale
- Zebra duiker bringing 15.53 kilos (34.24 lbs) to the scale
- Cape grysbok bringing 10.47 kilos (23.08 lbs) to the scale
- Speke’s gazelle bringing 20 kilos (44.09 lbs) to the scale
- Red gazelle bringing 40 kilos (88.18 lbs) to the scale
- Dall sheep bringing 70 kilos (154.32 lbs) to the scale
- Waterbuck bringing 203.2 kilos (447.98 lbs) to the scale
- Dama gazelle bringing 70.4 kilos (155.21 lbs) to the scale
- Peters’s duiker bringing 18.94 kilos (41.76 lbs) to the scale
- Japanese serow bringing 42.6 kilos (93.92 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Maxwell’s duiker
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cephalophus maxwellii:
- Tana River mangabey with a weight of 7.08 kilos (15.61 lbs)
- Purple-faced langur with a weight of 7.53 kilos (16.6 lbs)
- Indian pangolin with a weight of 8.02 kilos (17.68 lbs)
- Hog badger with a weight of 8.17 kilos (18.01 lbs)
- Western red colobus with a weight of 8.43 kilos (18.58 lbs)
- Pig-tailed langur with a weight of 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs)
- Fishing cat with a weight of 8.83 kilos (19.47 lbs)
- Peruvian spider monkey with a weight of 7.09 kilos (15.63 lbs)
- Sooty mangabey with a weight of 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs)
- Japanese macaque with a weight of 10.11 kilos (22.29 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Maxwell’s duiker
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Maxwell’s duiker:
- Blue duiker with a size of 69.2 cm (2′ 4″)
- Bornean yellow muntjac with a size of 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Red forest duiker with a size of 78.7 cm (2′ 7″)
- Aders’s duiker with a size of 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- Wolverine with a size of 77.3 cm (2′ 7″)
- Bornean orangutan with a size of 89 cm (3′ 0″)
- Black musk deer with a size of 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Marine otter with a size of 67.8 cm (2′ 3″)
- Common duiker with a size of 96.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- Eurasian otter with a size of 68.9 cm (2′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Maxwell’s duiker
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Maxwell’s duiker:
- Agile wallaby
- Killer whale
- Takin
- Asian golden cat
- Red forest duiker
- Spectral tarsier
- Cape elephant shrew
- Pond bat
- Red-shanked douc
- Short-beaked echidna
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Maxwell’s duiker
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Maxwell’s duiker:
- Fennec fox with an average maximal age of 14.58 years
- Weasel sportive lemur with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Patagonian mara with an average maximal age of 14 years
- American red squirrel with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Southern flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Naked mole-rat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Common spotted cuscus with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Raccoon dog with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Muskrat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Common noctule with an average maximal age of 12 years