What is the maximal age a Common duiker reaches?
An adult Common duiker (Sylvicapra grimmia) usually gets as old as 14.25 years.
Common duikers are around 174 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 1.58 kg (3.49 lbs) and measure 24 cm (0′ 10″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Sylvicapra), a Common duiker caries out around 1 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 2 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 96.1 cm (3′ 2″).
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 common duiker (Sylvicapra grimmia), also known as the grey or bush duiker, is a small antelope found everywhere in Africa south of the Sahara, excluding the Horn of Africa and the rainforests of the central and western parts of the continent. Generally, they are found in habitats with sufficient vegetation cover to allow them to hide—savanna and hilly areas, including the fringes of human settlements.
Animals of the same family as a Common duiker
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Sable antelope becoming 22.25 years old
- White-bellied duiker becoming 5.25 years old
- Giant eland becoming 16.17 years old
- Goat becoming 20.75 years old
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed goral becoming 13.17 years old
- Greater kudu becoming 23 years old
- East African oryx becoming 20 years old
- Walia ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Himalayan goral becoming 17.58 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Common duiker
With an average age of 14.25 years, Common duiker are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Meerkat usually reaching 12.5 years
- Brown mouse lemur usually reaching 12 years
- Harnessed bushbuck usually reaching 13 years
- Yellow-bellied glider usually reaching 16 years
- Günther’s dik-dik usually reaching 14 years
- Bates’s pygmy antelope usually reaching 14 years
- Black-footed ferret usually reaching 12 years
- Black-mantled tamarin usually reaching 15.17 years
- L’Hoest’s monkey usually reaching 16 years
- Royal antelope usually reaching 14 years
Animals with the same number of babies Common duiker
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Leschenault’s rousette
- Microcebus coquereli
- Canyon bat
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose
- Orange leaf-nosed bat
- Anoa
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest
- Thomson’s gazelle
- Steller’s sea cow
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
Weighting as much as Common duiker
A fully grown Common duiker reaches around 15.57 kg (34.33 lbs). So do these animals:
- Harvey’s duiker weighting 14.5 kilos (31.97 lbs) on average
- Pygmy brocket weighting 16.5 kilos (36.38 lbs) on average
- Ursine tree-kangaroo weighting 13.28 kilos (29.28 lbs) on average
- Black musk deer weighting 13.6 kilos (29.98 lbs) on average
- Yellow baboon weighting 15.82 kilos (34.88 lbs) on average
- Drill (animal) weighting 14.23 kilos (31.37 lbs) on average
- Zebra duiker weighting 15.53 kilos (34.24 lbs) on average
- Golden snub-nosed monkey weighting 13.46 kilos (29.67 lbs) on average
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo weighting 12.61 kilos (27.8 lbs) on average
- Northern plains gray langur weighting 12.64 kilos (27.87 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Common duiker
Those animals grow as big as a Common duiker:
- Steenbok with 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Large Indian civet with 81.9 cm (2′ 9″)
- Giant anteater with 1.12 meter (3′ 9″)
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with 85.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Chimpanzee with 79.6 cm (2′ 8″)
- Indian muntjac with 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Red goral with 1.04 meter (3′ 5″)
- Klipspringer with 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Four-horned antelope with 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- African civet with 79.2 cm (2′ 8″)