What is the maximal age a Yellow-backed duiker reaches?
An adult Yellow-backed duiker (Cephalophus silvicultor) usually gets as old as 17.25 years.
Yellow-backed duikers are around 234 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 4.41 kg (9.71 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 1.32 meter (4′ 5″).
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 yellow-backed duiker (Cephalophus silvicultor) is a forest dwelling antelope in the order Artiodactyla from the family Bovidae. Yellow-backed duikers are the most widely distributed of all duikers. They are found mainly in Central and Western Africa, ranging from Senegal to Western Uganda with possibly a few in Gambia. Their range also extends southward into Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire, and most of Zambia.
Animals of the same family as a Yellow-backed duiker
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Thomson’s gazelle becoming 15.17 years old
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Günther’s dik-dik becoming 14 years old
- Common duiker becoming 14.25 years old
- Mountain nyala becoming 11 years old
- Harvey’s duiker growing to a mass of 14.5 kgs (31.97 lbs)
- Saola growing to a mass of 97.84 kgs (215.7 lbs)
- Himalayan goral becoming 17.58 years old
- Mountain gazelle becoming 18.25 years old
- Topi becoming 12.5 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Yellow-backed duiker
With an average age of 17.25 years, Yellow-backed duiker are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Oribi usually reaching 15.75 years
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur usually reaching 19.25 years
- Arctic fox usually reaching 15 years
- Himalayan goral usually reaching 17.58 years
- Northern viscacha usually reaching 19.5 years
- Northern bat usually reaching 15.5 years
- Japanese serow usually reaching 18.5 years
- Alpine marmot usually reaching 18 years
- Plains zebra usually reaching 20 years
- Mountain gazelle usually reaching 18.25 years
Animals with the same number of babies Yellow-backed duiker
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Lesser false vampire bat
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby
- Spotted-winged fruit bat
- Ringed seal
- New Zealand sea lion
- Subantarctic fur seal
- Hippopotamus
- Zanzibar red colobus
- Southeastern myotis
- Koala
Weighting as much as Yellow-backed duiker
A fully grown Yellow-backed duiker reaches around 61.65 kg (135.92 lbs). So do these animals:
- Sika deer weighting 53 kilos (116.84 lbs) on average
- Harbour porpoise weighting 52.72 kilos (116.23 lbs) on average
- Pantropical spotted dolphin weighting 65.72 kilos (144.89 lbs) on average
- Cougar weighting 53.93 kilos (118.9 lbs) on average
- South American fur seal weighting 68.14 kilos (150.22 lbs) on average
- Javan rusa weighting 65.8 kilos (145.06 lbs) on average
- Mountain goat weighting 71.84 kilos (158.38 lbs) on average
- Spectacled porpoise weighting 65 kilos (143.3 lbs) on average
- Grant’s gazelle weighting 55 kilos (121.25 lbs) on average
- Caspian seal weighting 62.3 kilos (137.35 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Yellow-backed duiker
Those animals grow as big as a Yellow-backed duiker:
- Capybara with 1.21 meter (4′ 0″)
- Sika deer with 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Anoa with 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Spotted hyena with 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Himalayan goral with 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Philippine deer with 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Abbott’s duiker with 1.18 meter (3′ 11″)
- Calamian deer with 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Common warthog with 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Gerenuk with 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)