How big does a Maxwell’s duiker get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Maxwell’s duiker (Cephalophus maxwellii) reaches an average size of 84.6 cm (2′ 10″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 12.25 years, they grow from 828 grams (1.83 lbs) to 8.44 kg (18.61 lbs). A Maxwell’s duiker has 1 babies at once. The Maxwell’s duiker (genus: Cephalophus) is a member of the family Bovidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The Maxwell’s duiker (Philantomba maxwellii) is a small antelope found in western Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Maxwell’s duiker
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Lesser kudu with a size of 1.68 meter (5′ 6″)
- Rhim gazelle with a size of 1.03 meter (3′ 5″)
- Tamaraw with a size of 2.2 meter (7′ 3″)
- Salt’s dik-dik with a size of 59.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Arabian tahr with a size of 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)
- Royal antelope with a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Saudi gazelle bringing 16 kilos (35.27 lbs) to the scale
- Mongolian gazelle with a size of 1.24 meter (4′ 1″)
- Red hartebeest with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
Animals with the same size as a Maxwell’s duiker
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Maxwell’s duiker:
- Collared peccary with a size of 88.6 cm (2′ 11″)
- Aardwolf with a size of 70.1 cm (2′ 4″)
- Serval with a size of 83.5 cm (2′ 9″)
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with a size of 71.7 cm (2′ 5″)
- Thomson’s gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- North American porcupine with a size of 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Pacarana with a size of 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Smooth-coated otter with a size of 78.8 cm (2′ 8″)
- Bornean yellow muntjac with a size of 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Siamang with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Maxwell’s duiker
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Maxwell’s duiker:
- African pygmy squirrel
- Northern olingo
- Unstriped ground squirrel
- Banteng
- Zebra duiker
- Little brown bat
- Bornean orangutan
- Subantarctic fur seal
- Malayan porcupine
- Southwestern myotis
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Maxwell’s duiker
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Maxwell’s duiker:
- Llama with an average maximal age of 14.17 years
- Capybara with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Long-tailed goral with an average maximal age of 13.17 years
- European polecat with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Royal antelope with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Pudú with an average maximal age of 12.5 years
- Crab-eating fox with an average maximal age of 11.5 years
- Pampas fox with an average maximal age of 13.67 years
- Pronghorn with an average maximal age of 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Maxwell’s duiker
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cephalophus maxwellii:
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo with a weight of 8.47 kilos (18.67 lbs)
- North American river otter with a weight of 8.09 kilos (17.84 lbs)
- Western red colobus with a weight of 8.43 kilos (18.58 lbs)
- East Javan langur with a weight of 9.72 kilos (21.43 lbs)
- Southern river otter with a weight of 7.5 kilos (16.53 lbs)
- Aders’s duiker with a weight of 9.25 kilos (20.39 lbs)
- Phayre’s leaf monkey with a weight of 7.69 kilos (16.95 lbs)
- Mantled guereza with a weight of 9.96 kilos (21.96 lbs)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a weight of 8.91 kilos (19.64 lbs)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 9.09 kilos (20.04 lbs)