It is hard to guess what a White-bellied duiker weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-bellied duiker (Cephalophus leucogaster) on average weights 13.1 kg (28.89 lbs).
The White-bellied duiker is from the family Bovidae (genus: Cephalophus). They can live for up to 5.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 94 cm (3′ 2″). Usually, White-bellied 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 white-bellied duiker (Cephalophus leucogaster) is a duiker found in central Africa. Little is known on the ecology of the species, and only some information on habitat and diet is available.Duikers are a fairly small species of antelope that originate from, and still reside in, sub-Saharan Africa.The white-bellied duiker ranges in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon, while it is likely to have been extirpated in Uganda.
Animals of the same family as a White-bellied duiker
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Hirola bringing 79.13 kilos (174.45 lbs) to the scale
- Lechwe bringing 88.02 kilos (194.05 lbs) to the scale
- European bison bringing 674.44 kilos (1486.88 lbs) to the scale
- Urial bringing 51.8 kilos (114.2 lbs) to the scale
- Chinese goral with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Common duiker bringing 15.57 kilos (34.33 lbs) to the scale
- Bongo (antelope) bringing 269.5 kilos (594.15 lbs) to the scale
- Przewalski’s gazelle bringing 27.5 kilos (60.63 lbs) to the scale
- Bontebok bringing 77.24 kilos (170.28 lbs) to the scale
- Bohor reedbuck bringing 43.09 kilos (95 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a White-bellied duiker
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cephalophus leucogaster:
- Ocelot with a weight of 11.89 kilos (26.21 lbs)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 13.46 kilos (29.67 lbs)
- Iberian lynx with a weight of 11.08 kilos (24.43 lbs)
- Siamang with a weight of 10.9 kilos (24.03 lbs)
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with a weight of 12.61 kilos (27.8 lbs)
- Barbary macaque with a weight of 11.49 kilos (25.33 lbs)
- Proboscis monkey with a weight of 12.28 kilos (27.07 lbs)
- Southern muriqui with a weight of 10.57 kilos (23.3 lbs)
- Siamang with a weight of 10.84 kilos (23.9 lbs)
- Cape porcupine with a weight of 14.92 kilos (32.89 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a White-bellied duiker
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as White-bellied duiker:
- Buru babirusa with a size of 95 cm (3′ 2″)
- Japanese macaque with a size of 82.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Klipspringer with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Chacoan peccary with a size of 1.03 meter (3′ 5″)
- Siamang with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- African clawless otter with a size of 80.9 cm (2′ 8″)
- Maxwell’s duiker with a size of 84.6 cm (2′ 10″)
- Red-fronted gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- North American porcupine with a size of 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Proserpine rock-wallaby with a size of 100 cm (3′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a White-bellied duiker
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a White-bellied duiker:
- Azara’s night monkey
- Feather-tailed possum
- Squirrel glider
- Insular flying fox
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
- Moustached tamarin
- Usambara shrew
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox
- Grant’s golden mole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a White-bellied duiker
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a White-bellied duiker:
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.67 years
- Cairo spiny mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with an average maximal age of 5.5 years
- Spinifex hopping mouse with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Hazel dormouse with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Slender mongoose with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Saharan striped polecat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- California ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Abbott’s duiker with an average maximal age of 5.42 years
- Hairy-tailed mole with an average maximal age of 5 years