What is the maximal age a Suni reaches?
An adult Suni (Neotragus moschatus) usually gets as old as 14 years.
Sunis are around 180 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 499 grams (1.1 lbs) and measure 6.6 cm (0′ 3″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Neotragus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 59.9 cm (2′ 0″).
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 Suni (Neotragus moschatus) is a small antelope. It occurs in dense underbrush from central Kenya to KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.Suni are around 12–17 inches (30–43 cm) high at the shoulder and weigh 10–12 pounds (4.5–5.4 kg). They are usually reddish brown, darker on their back than their sides and legs. The belly, chin, throat and insides of legs are white. The nostrils are prominent red, and there are black rings around the eyes and above the hooves. Males have horns 3–5 inches (8–13 cm) long, that are ridged most of their length and curve backwards close to their heads. Females do not have horns. Suni can make weak barking and whistling sounds.Suni feed on leaves, fungi, fruits and flowers, and need almost no free water. They are shy, most active at night, and sleep during the day in a shady, sheltered area. They are social but males defend a territory of about three hectares. They scent-mark the boundaries with secretions from their preorbital glands. There may be an individual or communal dung pile on the periphery of the territory. A male usually takes one mate, but other females may share his territory. A single calf is born weighing about two pounds, after a gestation of 183 days.Lions, birds of prey, snakes, and other meat-eaters prey on suni. For protection, they are well camouflaged in dry grass and keep very still. When a predator is almost on top of them, they spring out and bound away into the underbrush.
Animals of the same family as a Suni
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Addax becoming 25.67 years old
- Maxwell’s duiker becoming 12.25 years old
- Dama gazelle becoming 17.25 years old
- Maxwell’s duiker becoming 12.25 years old
- Sharpe’s grysbok becoming 14 years old
- European bison becoming 27 years old
- Saudi gazelle growing to a mass of 16 kgs (35.27 lbs)
- Tamaraw becoming 28 years old
- Bluebuck growing to a mass of 150 kgs (330.69 lbs)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle becoming 15.5 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Suni
With an average age of 14 years, Suni are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Indian pangolin usually reaching 13.5 years
- Eastern bettong usually reaching 11.75 years
- European badger usually reaching 16.17 years
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby usually reaching 12 years
- Pudú usually reaching 12.5 years
- Horsfield’s tarsier usually reaching 12 years
- Red squirrel usually reaching 12 years
- Sable usually reaching 15 years
- Silvery marmoset usually reaching 16.75 years
- La Plata dolphin usually reaching 16 years
Animals with the same number of babies Suni
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Leadbeater’s possum
- Indian flying fox
- Red-necked pademelon
- Dusky elephant shrew
- South African springhare
- Proboscis monkey
- Jameson’s red rock hare
- Maned sloth
- Natal long-fingered bat
- Spix’s night monkey
Weighting as much as Suni
A fully grown Suni reaches around 5.63 kg (12.4 lbs). So do these animals:
- White-nosed coati weighting 4.58 kilos (10.1 lbs) on average
- Tammar wallaby weighting 5.28 kilos (11.64 lbs) on average
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby weighting 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs) on average
- Desmarest’s hutia weighting 5.2 kilos (11.46 lbs) on average
- Lion-tailed macaque weighting 6 kilos (13.23 lbs) on average
- Koala weighting 6.55 kilos (14.44 lbs) on average
- Lar gibbon weighting 5.6 kilos (12.35 lbs) on average
- Black dorcopsis weighting 6.2 kilos (13.67 lbs) on average
- Diademed sifaka weighting 6.58 kilos (14.51 lbs) on average
- Large-spotted civet weighting 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Suni
Those animals grow as big as a Suni:
- Zanzibar red colobus with 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Black-footed mongoose with 61.3 cm (2′ 1″)
- Andean mountain cat with 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Preuss’s monkey with 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Bates’s pygmy antelope with 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Dingiso with 67.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Crested servaline genet with 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Broom hare with 50.2 cm (1′ 8″)
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with 52.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Delacour’s langur with 57.7 cm (1′ 11″)