What is the maximal age a Red forest duiker reaches?
An adult Red forest duiker (Cephalophus natalensis) usually gets as old as 15 years.
Red forest duikers are around 212 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 956 grams (2.11 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 78.7 cm (2′ 7″).
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 red forest duiker, Natal duiker, or Natal red duiker (Cephalophus natalensis) is a small antelope found in central to southern Africa. It is one of 22 extant species form the subfamily Cephalophinae. While the red forest duiker is very similar to the common duiker, it is smaller in size and has a distinguishing reddish coloring. Additionally, the red forest duiker favors a denser bush habitat than the common duiker. The Natal red duiker is more diurnal and less secretive than most forest duikers, so therefore it is easier for them to be observed. In 1999, red forest duikers had an estimated wild population of 42,000 individuals.
Animals of the same family as a Red forest duiker
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Mountain reedbuck becoming 12.25 years old
- Chinkara growing to a mass of 18.91 kgs (41.69 lbs)
- Suni becoming 14 years old
- Cuvier’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Anoa becoming 36 years old
- Zebra duiker becoming 12.17 years old
- Kirk’s dik-dik becoming 16.5 years old
- Muskox becoming 24 years old
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest growing to a mass of 168.7 kgs (371.92 lbs)
- Domestic yak becoming 22.25 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Red forest duiker
With an average age of 15 years, Red forest duiker are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Nilgiri tahr usually reaching 17.25 years
- Kirk’s dik-dik usually reaching 16.5 years
- Northern bat usually reaching 15.5 years
- Long-tailed goral usually reaching 13.17 years
- Günther’s dik-dik usually reaching 14 years
- Greater dwarf lemur usually reaching 15 years
- Black-backed jackal usually reaching 14 years
- Masoala fork-marked lemur usually reaching 12 years
- Black-crested Sumatran langur usually reaching 16 years
- Indian muntjac usually reaching 17.58 years
Animals with the same number of babies Red forest duiker
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Insular flying fox
- Soemmerring’s gazelle
- Cuvier’s beaked whale
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat
- Mongolian gazelle
- Microcebus coquereli
- Pig-tailed langur
- Subalpine woolly rat
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle
- Philippine tarsier
Weighting as much as Red forest duiker
A fully grown Red forest duiker reaches around 12.36 kg (27.25 lbs). So do these animals:
- Black-footed gray langur weighting 10.03 kilos (22.11 lbs) on average
- Siamang weighting 10.9 kilos (24.03 lbs) on average
- Ethiopian wolf weighting 14.38 kilos (31.7 lbs) on average
- Coyote weighting 12 kilos (26.46 lbs) on average
- Harvey’s duiker weighting 14.5 kilos (31.97 lbs) on average
- Siberian musk deer weighting 13.31 kilos (29.34 lbs) on average
- Sulawesi bear cuscus weighting 10 kilos (22.05 lbs) on average
- Serval weighting 11.9 kilos (26.23 lbs) on average
- Beira (antelope) weighting 10.91 kilos (24.05 lbs) on average
- European badger weighting 11.89 kilos (26.21 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Red forest duiker
Those animals grow as big as a Red forest duiker:
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with 85.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- European badger with 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with 71.7 cm (2′ 5″)
- Hairy-nosed otter with 76.5 cm (2′ 7″)
- Aardwolf with 69.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Giant armadillo with 87.4 cm (2′ 11″)
- Indian crested porcupine with 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Siamang with 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Sharpe’s grysbok with 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Canada lynx with 70.4 cm (2′ 4″)