It is hard to guess what a Maxwell’s duiker weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Maxwell’s duiker (Philantomba maxwellii) on average weights 8.56 kg (18.86 lbs).
The Maxwell’s duiker is from the family Bovidae (genus: Philantomba). It is usually born with about 827 grams (1.82 lbs). They can live for up to 12.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 84.5 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:
- Alpine ibex bringing 69.42 kilos (153.04 lbs) to the scale
- Dama gazelle bringing 70.4 kilos (155.21 lbs) to the scale
- Southern reedbuck bringing 57.94 kilos (127.74 lbs) to the scale
- Weyns’s duiker with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Przewalski’s gazelle bringing 27.5 kilos (60.63 lbs) to the scale
- Arabian tahr bringing 22.06 kilos (48.63 lbs) to the scale
- Red hartebeest bringing 176.12 kilos (388.28 lbs) to the scale
- Chinkara bringing 18.91 kilos (41.69 lbs) to the scale
- Bohor reedbuck bringing 43.09 kilos (95 lbs) to the scale
- Muskox bringing 312.67 kilos (689.32 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 Philantomba maxwellii:
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo with a weight of 8.47 kilos (18.67 lbs)
- Guatemalan black howler with a weight of 7.19 kilos (15.85 lbs)
- Japanese macaque with a weight of 10.11 kilos (22.29 lbs)
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo with a weight of 8.31 kilos (18.32 lbs)
- Indian pangolin with a weight of 8.02 kilos (17.68 lbs)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon with a weight of 7.32 kilos (16.14 lbs)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a weight of 8.23 kilos (18.14 lbs)
- Black-footed gray langur with a weight of 10.03 kilos (22.11 lbs)
- Honey badger with a weight of 9 kilos (19.84 lbs)
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with a weight of 8.5 kilos (18.74 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:
- Steenbok with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Speke’s gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Siamang with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Fisher (animal) with a size of 75.1 cm (2′ 6″)
- Canada lynx with a size of 70.4 cm (2′ 4″)
- Proserpine rock-wallaby with a size of 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Chimpanzee with a size of 79.6 cm (2′ 8″)
- Asian golden cat with a size of 89 cm (3′ 0″)
- Zebra duiker with a size of 87.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Falkland Islands wolf with a size of 96 cm (3′ 2″)
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:
- Merriam’s pocket gopher
- Thomson’s gazelle
- Ring-tailed lemur
- Greater kudu
- Fea’s muntjac
- Greater grison
- Eastern rock elephant shrew
- Kinkajou
- Hoffmann’s rat
- White-striped dorcopsis
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Maxwell’s duiker
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Maxwell’s duiker:
- Jaguarundi with an average maximal age of 10.58 years
- Malabar large-spotted civet with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Black-backed jackal with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Mountain beaver with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Fennec fox with an average maximal age of 14.58 years
- Pampas fox with an average maximal age of 13.67 years
- Pampas fox with an average maximal age of 13.67 years
- Black-footed ferret with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Side-striped jackal with an average maximal age of 11.42 years
- Agile wallaby with an average maximal age of 12 years