What is the maximal age a Maxwell’s duiker reaches?
An adult Maxwell’s duiker (Cephalophus maxwellii) usually gets as old as 12.25 years.
Maxwell’s duikers are around 205 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 828 grams (1.83 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 84.6 cm (2′ 10″).
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 Maxwell’s duiker (Philantomba maxwellii) is a small antelope found in western Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Maxwell’s duiker
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Chinkara growing to a mass of 18.91 kgs (41.69 lbs)
- Goat becoming 20.75 years old
- Ruwenzori duiker growing to a mass of 15 kgs (33.07 lbs)
- Cape grysbok becoming 14 years old
- Sable antelope becoming 22.25 years old
- Japanese serow becoming 18.5 years old
- Thomson’s gazelle becoming 15.17 years old
- Giant eland becoming 16.17 years old
- White-bellied duiker becoming 5.25 years old
- Goitered gazelle becoming 20 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Maxwell’s duiker
With an average age of 12.25 years, Maxwell’s duiker are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Crab-eating mongoose usually reaching 13.33 years
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby usually reaching 12 years
- Naked mole-rat usually reaching 10 years
- Mountain pygmy possum usually reaching 12 years
- Oncilla usually reaching 10 years
- Pygmy hog usually reaching 12 years
- Black-backed jackal usually reaching 14 years
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel usually reaching 12 years
- Sugar glider usually reaching 14 years
- Crab-eating raccoon usually reaching 14 years
Animals with the same number of babies Maxwell’s duiker
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat
- Desert long-eared bat
- Three-striped night monkey
- Townsend’s mole
- Hoffmann’s rat
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey
- Siberian musk deer
- Purple-faced langur
- Sunda pangolin
Weighting as much as Maxwell’s duiker
A fully grown Maxwell’s duiker reaches around 8.44 kg (18.61 lbs). So do these animals:
- Black colobus weighting 9.1 kilos (20.06 lbs) on average
- Pig-tailed langur weighting 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs) on average
- Pudú weighting 9.6 kilos (21.16 lbs) on average
- Aardwolf weighting 8.29 kilos (18.28 lbs) on average
- King colobus weighting 8.7 kilos (19.18 lbs) on average
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey weighting 9.12 kilos (20.11 lbs) on average
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo weighting 8.47 kilos (18.67 lbs) on average
- Black-headed spider monkey weighting 9.07 kilos (20 lbs) on average
- Dingiso weighting 9.4 kilos (20.72 lbs) on average
- Canada lynx weighting 9.73 kilos (21.45 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Maxwell’s duiker
Those animals grow as big as a Maxwell’s duiker:
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat with 1 meter (3′ 4″)
- Iberian lynx with 96.3 cm (3′ 2″)
- Red-fronted gazelle with 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with 71.7 cm (2′ 5″)
- Eurasian otter with 68.9 cm (2′ 4″)
- Aardwolf with 70.1 cm (2′ 4″)
- Common wombat with 98.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Ocelot with 74.6 cm (2′ 6″)
- Sharpe’s grysbok with 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)