What is the maximal age a Steenbok reaches?
An adult Steenbok (Raphicerus campestris) usually gets as old as 14 years.
Steenboks are around 210 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 916 grams (2.02 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Raphicerus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″).
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 steenbok (Raphicerus campestris) is a common small antelope of southern and eastern Africa. It is sometimes known as the steinbuck or steinbok.
Animals of the same family as a Steenbok
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Nilgai becoming 21.67 years old
- Dwarf blue sheep growing to a mass of 29.27 kgs (64.53 lbs)
- Grey rhebok becoming 12.25 years old
- African buffalo becoming 29.5 years old
- Przewalski’s gazelle growing to a mass of 27.5 kgs (60.63 lbs)
- Bluebuck growing to a mass of 150 kgs (330.69 lbs)
- Red-fronted gazelle becoming 13.5 years old
- Four-horned antelope becoming 10.75 years old
- Hirola becoming 15.17 years old
- Sitatunga becoming 21.5 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Steenbok
With an average age of 14 years, Steenbok are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Equatorial saki usually reaching 14.83 years
- Gray fox usually reaching 15 years
- Crab-eating mongoose usually reaching 13.33 years
- Grey rhebok usually reaching 12.25 years
- Cape grysbok usually reaching 14 years
- Heterohyrax antineae usually reaching 12 years
- Maxwell’s duiker usually reaching 12.25 years
- Red giant flying squirrel usually reaching 16 years
- Topi usually reaching 12.5 years
- Antilopine kangaroo usually reaching 16 years
Animals with the same number of babies Steenbok
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Japanese macaque
- Malayan porcupine
- Northern plains gray langur
- Painted ringtail possum
- Delicate mouse
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur
- Pygmy ringtail possum
- Parti-coloured bat
- Bicolored-spined porcupine
Weighting as much as Steenbok
A fully grown Steenbok reaches around 11.64 kg (25.66 lbs). So do these animals:
- Mantled guereza weighting 9.96 kilos (21.96 lbs) on average
- Roosevelt’s muntjac weighting 10.76 kilos (23.72 lbs) on average
- Barbary macaque weighting 11.49 kilos (25.33 lbs) on average
- Reeves’s muntjac weighting 13.5 kilos (29.76 lbs) on average
- Ursine tree-kangaroo weighting 13.28 kilos (29.28 lbs) on average
- Water deer weighting 12.73 kilos (28.06 lbs) on average
- Pudú weighting 9.61 kilos (21.19 lbs) on average
- Canada lynx weighting 9.73 kilos (21.45 lbs) on average
- Tibetan macaque weighting 10.6 kilos (23.37 lbs) on average
- Greater long-nosed armadillo weighting 9.7 kilos (21.38 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Steenbok
Those animals grow as big as a Steenbok:
- Eastern grey kangaroo with 87.7 cm (2′ 11″)
- Golden jackal with 83 cm (2′ 9″)
- Red-fronted gazelle with 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Zebra duiker with 87.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Bonobo with 75.3 cm (2′ 6″)
- Mandrill with 75.8 cm (2′ 6″)
- Chimpanzee with 79.6 cm (2′ 8″)
- Common wombat with 98.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- Marine otter with 67.8 cm (2′ 3″)
- African golden cat with 79.9 cm (2′ 8″)