It is hard to guess what a Southern reedbuck weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern reedbuck (Redunca arundinum) on average weights 57.94 kg (127.73 lbs).
The Southern reedbuck is from the family Bovidae (genus: Redunca). It is usually born with about 4.5 kg (9.92 lbs). They can live for up to 16.75 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.51 meter (5′ 0″). Usually, Southern reedbucks 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 southern reedbuck, rietbok or common reedbuck (Redunca arundinum) is a diurnal antelope typically found in southern Africa. It was first described by Pieter Boddaert, a Dutch physician and naturalist, in 1785. It is placed in the genus Redunca and family Bovidae. This antelope has an average mass of 58 kg (128 lb) and a body length of about 134–167 cm (53–66 in).
Animals of the same family as a Southern reedbuck
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Water buffalo bringing 924.25 kilos (2037.62 lbs) to the scale
- Red gazelle bringing 40 kilos (88.18 lbs) to the scale
- Maxwell’s duiker bringing 8.56 kilos (18.87 lbs) to the scale
- Japanese serow bringing 42.6 kilos (93.92 lbs) to the scale
- Bluebuck bringing 150 kilos (330.69 lbs) to the scale
- Soemmerring’s gazelle bringing 41 kilos (90.39 lbs) to the scale
- Salt’s dik-dik bringing 3.4 kilos (7.5 lbs) to the scale
- Gerenuk bringing 38.65 kilos (85.21 lbs) to the scale
- Dorcas gazelle bringing 15.57 kilos (34.33 lbs) to the scale
- Common duiker bringing 15.57 kilos (34.33 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Southern reedbuck
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Redunca arundinum:
- Bawean deer with a weight of 55 kilos (121.25 lbs)
- Philippine deer with a weight of 49.1 kilos (108.25 lbs)
- Grant’s gazelle with a weight of 55 kilos (121.25 lbs)
- Markhor with a weight of 53.95 kilos (118.94 lbs)
- Yellow-backed duiker with a weight of 61.65 kilos (135.91 lbs)
- Sun bear with a weight of 57.04 kilos (125.75 lbs)
- Spinner dolphin with a weight of 50.5 kilos (111.33 lbs)
- Javan rusa with a weight of 65.8 kilos (145.06 lbs)
- Visayan spotted deer with a weight of 46.48 kilos (102.47 lbs)
- Australophocaena dioptrica with a weight of 65 kilos (143.3 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Southern reedbuck
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Southern reedbuck:
- White-tailed deer with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Lesser kudu with a size of 1.68 meter (5′ 6″)
- Spotted seal with a size of 1.64 meter (5′ 5″)
- Saola with a size of 1.75 meter (5′ 9″)
- South Andean deer with a size of 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)
- Javan rusa with a size of 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Red river hog with a size of 1.37 meter (4′ 6″)
- Capybara with a size of 1.21 meter (4′ 0″)
- Philippine deer with a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Caspian seal with a size of 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Southern reedbuck
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Southern reedbuck:
- Short-eared possum
- Malagasy serotine
- Kolan vole
- Sika deer
- Tufted capuchin
- Thumbless bat
- Red-fronted gazelle
- Koslov’s pika
- Little collared fruit bat
- Dwarf hutia
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Southern reedbuck
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Southern reedbuck:
- Goitered gazelle with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Plains zebra with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Sugar glider with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Greater mouse-deer with an average maximal age of 16.25 years
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey with an average maximal age of 19 years
- Leopard cat with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 15.5 years
- Black wildebeest with an average maximal age of 20 years
- East African oryx with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Cape porcupine with an average maximal age of 20 years