What is the maximal age a Harnessed bushbuck reaches?
An adult Harnessed bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus) usually gets as old as 13 years.
Harnessed bushbucks are around 182 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 3.03 kg (6.69 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Tragelaphus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.25 meter (4′ 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 harnessed bushbuck or kéwel (Tragelaphus scriptus) is a small to medium-sized antelope widespread in west and central Africa. Formerly and alongside the Cape bushbuck it was generically known as the bushbuck, however, it has since been found to be a species in its own right, with a separate geographic distribution. Of all the other tragelaphine antelopes, the harnessed bushbuck is most closely related to the nyala (Tragelaphus angasi).
Animals of the same family as a Harnessed bushbuck
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- East African oryx becoming 20 years old
- Dall sheep becoming 16 years old
- Addax becoming 25.67 years old
- Arabian gazelle becoming 11.25 years old
- Grant’s gazelle becoming 12.67 years old
- Lesser kudu becoming 18.92 years old
- Bharal becoming 24 years old
- Nyala becoming 16 years old
- Royal antelope becoming 14 years old
- Blue wildebeest becoming 21.5 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Harnessed bushbuck
With an average age of 13 years, Harnessed bushbuck are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Mindanao treeshrew usually reaching 11.5 years
- Brown mouse lemur usually reaching 12 years
- Bates’s pygmy antelope usually reaching 14 years
- Red-fronted gazelle usually reaching 13.5 years
- Spectral tarsier usually reaching 12 years
- Bobak marmot usually reaching 15 years
- Leopard cat usually reaching 15 years
- Rock cavy usually reaching 11 years
- Maned wolf usually reaching 15 years
- European polecat usually reaching 14 years
Animals with the same number of babies Harnessed bushbuck
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Javan rusa
- Charming thicket rat
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin
- Lesser tree mouse
- Himalayan tahr
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat
- Crowned lemur
- Beluga whale
- Agile wallaby
- Lesser long-fingered bat
Weighting as much as Harnessed bushbuck
A fully grown Harnessed bushbuck reaches around 43.28 kg (95.4 lbs). So do these animals:
- La Plata dolphin weighting 40.5 kilos (89.29 lbs) on average
- Gerenuk weighting 38.65 kilos (85.21 lbs) on average
- Cheetah weighting 50.54 kilos (111.42 lbs) on average
- Galápagos fur seal weighting 39.47 kilos (87.02 lbs) on average
- Philippine deer weighting 49.1 kilos (108.25 lbs) on average
- Striped hyena weighting 35.09 kilos (77.36 lbs) on average
- Pronghorn weighting 47.18 kilos (104.01 lbs) on average
- Giant armadillo weighting 41.33 kilos (91.12 lbs) on average
- Spinner dolphin weighting 50.5 kilos (111.33 lbs) on average
- Saiga antelope weighting 37.57 kilos (82.83 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Harnessed bushbuck
Those animals grow as big as a Harnessed bushbuck:
- Philippine deer with 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Rhim gazelle with 1.03 meter (3′ 5″)
- Mountain reedbuck with 1.23 meter (4′ 1″)
- Snow leopard with 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Red wolf with 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)
- Nilgiri tahr with 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Abbott’s duiker with 1.18 meter (3′ 11″)
- American black bear with 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Giant otter with 1.14 meter (3′ 9″)
- Galápagos fur seal with 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)