What is the maximal age a Aders’s duiker reaches?
An adult Aders’s duiker (Cephalophus adersi) usually gets as old as 4 years.
Aders’s duikers are around 120 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 239 grams (0.53 lbs) and measure 20 cm (0′ 8″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Cephalophus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 69 cm (2′ 4″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The Aders’s duiker (Cephalophus adersi), also known as nunga in Swahili, kunga marara in Kipokomo and harake in Giriama, is a small, forest-dwelling duiker found only in Zanzibar and Kenya. It may be a subspecies of the red, Harvey’s, or Peters’s duiker or a hybrid of a combination of these. It is named after Dr. W. Mansfield Aders, a zoologist with the Zanzibar Government Service.
Animals of the same family as a Aders’s duiker
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Japanese serow becoming 18.5 years old
- Cuvier’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern reedbuck becoming 16.75 years old
- Takin becoming 19.5 years old
- Anoa becoming 22.5 years old
- Himalayan goral becoming 17.58 years old
- Mountain gazelle becoming 18.25 years old
- Red hartebeest becoming 15.25 years old
- Hirola becoming 15.17 years old
- Chamois becoming 22 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Aders’s duiker
With an average age of 4 years, Aders’s duiker are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Acacia rat usually reaching 3.5 years
- Small Japanese mole usually reaching 3.5 years
- Botta’s pocket gopher usually reaching 4.5 years
- Steppe pika usually reaching 4 years
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher usually reaching 4.67 years
- Euphrates jerboa usually reaching 4.17 years
- Northern pygmy mouse usually reaching 3.25 years
- Smith’s vole usually reaching 3.5 years
- Southern brown bandicoot usually reaching 3.75 years
- Guyenne spiny rat usually reaching 4.75 years
Animals with the same number of babies Aders’s duiker
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Angolan talapoin
- Checkered elephant shrew
- Tufted capuchin
- Greater mouse-eared bat
- Angola colobus
- Southern three-banded armadillo
- Aba roundleaf bat
- Evening bat
- Seychelles fruit bat
- Black rhinoceros
Weighting as much as Aders’s duiker
A fully grown Aders’s duiker reaches around 9.25 kg (20.39 lbs). So do these animals:
- Golden jackal weighting 9.67 kilos (21.32 lbs) on average
- Sharpe’s grysbok weighting 9.37 kilos (20.66 lbs) on average
- Andean mountain cat weighting 8.13 kilos (17.92 lbs) on average
- Pennant’s colobus weighting 10.9 kilos (24.03 lbs) on average
- Ursine colobus weighting 7.7 kilos (16.98 lbs) on average
- Culpeo weighting 8.62 kilos (19 lbs) on average
- Dingiso weighting 9.4 kilos (20.72 lbs) on average
- Roosevelt’s muntjac weighting 10.76 kilos (23.72 lbs) on average
- Sulawesi bear cuscus weighting 10 kilos (22.05 lbs) on average
- Black-footed gray langur weighting 10.03 kilos (22.11 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Aders’s duiker
Those animals grow as big as a Aders’s duiker:
- Pygmy hog with 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Pallas’s cat with 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Gee’s golden langur with 60.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Gray fox with 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Andean mountain cat with 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Fisher (animal) with 75.1 cm (2′ 6″)
- Southern tamandua with 56.1 cm (1′ 11″)
- Formosan rock macaque with 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Red fox with 62.9 cm (2′ 1″)
- Tana River red colobus with 56 cm (1′ 11″)