It is hard to guess what a Peters’s duiker weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Peters’s duiker (Cephalophus callipygus) on average weights 18.94 kg (41.76 lbs).
The Peters’s duiker is from the family Bovidae (genus: Cephalophus). It is usually born with about 2.8 kg (6.17 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.02 meter (3′ 4″).
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.
Peters’s duiker (Cephalophus callipygus) is a small antelope found in Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, southern Cameroon, and northern Republic of the Congo.Peters’s duikers typically weigh about 40 lb (18 kg), and are about 20 in (50 cm) at the shoulder. They have grey-brown coats, and live in dense undergrowth in mountain rainforests. The total population is estimated at 380,000 individuals, with a declining trend.
Animals of the same family as a Peters’s duiker
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest bringing 168 kilos (370.38 lbs) to the scale
- Steenbok bringing 11.64 kilos (25.66 lbs) to the scale
- Dama gazelle bringing 71.42 kilos (157.45 lbs) to the scale
- Chinese goral with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Puku bringing 71.23 kilos (157.04 lbs) to the scale
- Greater kudu bringing 205.53 kilos (453.12 lbs) to the scale
- Sitatunga bringing 75.28 kilos (165.96 lbs) to the scale
- Bay duiker bringing 20 kilos (44.09 lbs) to the scale
- Scimitar oryx bringing 198.4 kilos (437.4 lbs) to the scale
- Red hartebeest bringing 176.12 kilos (388.28 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Peters’s duiker
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cephalophus callipygus:
- Collared peccary with a weight of 21.19 kilos (46.72 lbs)
- African clawless otter with a weight of 19.16 kilos (42.24 lbs)
- Black wallaroo with a weight of 17 kilos (37.48 lbs)
- Common duiker with a weight of 15.57 kilos (34.33 lbs)
- Gray brocket with a weight of 16.4 kilos (36.16 lbs)
- Yellow baboon with a weight of 15.82 kilos (34.88 lbs)
- Eurasian beaver with a weight of 19 kilos (41.89 lbs)
- Saudi gazelle with a weight of 16 kilos (35.27 lbs)
- Pygmy brocket with a weight of 16.5 kilos (36.38 lbs)
- Gray brocket with a weight of 16.63 kilos (36.66 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Peters’s duiker
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Peters’s duiker:
- White-bellied duiker with a size of 94 cm (3′ 2″)
- Coyote with a size of 87.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Clouded leopard with a size of 83.8 cm (2′ 9″)
- Bay duiker with a size of 84.9 cm (2′ 10″)
- Thomson’s gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Falkland Islands wolf with a size of 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Brown hyena with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat with a size of 1 meter (3′ 4″)
- Speke’s gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Black musk deer with a size of 90 cm (3′ 0″)