How big does a Steenbok get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Steenbok (Raphicerus campestris) reaches an average size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 14 years, they grow from 916 grams (2.02 lbs) to 11.64 kg (25.66 lbs). A Steenbok has 1 babies at once. The Steenbok (genus: Raphicerus) 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 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
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Common duiker with a size of 96.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- Walia ibex with 1 babies per litter
- Grant’s gazelle with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Weyns’s duiker with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Oribi with a size of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Argali with a size of 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
- Arabian gazelle with a size of 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Dall sheep with a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- Mountain nyala with a size of 2.25 meter (7′ 5″)
- Sitatunga with a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
Animals with the same size as a Steenbok
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Steenbok:
- Siberian musk deer with a size of 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Ethiopian wolf with a size of 94.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- Dhole with a size of 98.8 cm (3′ 3″)
- Siamang with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Beira (antelope) with a size of 77.9 cm (2′ 7″)
- African wild dog with a size of 92.4 cm (3′ 1″)
- Culpeo with a size of 72 cm (2′ 5″)
- Blue duiker with a size of 69.3 cm (2′ 4″)
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with a size of 71.7 cm (2′ 5″)
- Red forest duiker with a size of 78.7 cm (2′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Steenbok
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Steenbok:
- Southern marsupial mole
- Coquerel’s sifaka
- Hottentot golden mole
- Biak glider
- Water chevrotain
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
- Indian hog deer
- Microcebus coquereli
- Indian rhinoceros
- Prevost’s squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Steenbok
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Steenbok:
- Water deer with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Fennec fox with an average maximal age of 14.58 years
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Common pipistrelle with an average maximal age of 16.67 years
- Tammar wallaby with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Jungle cat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 15.5 years
- Black-footed mongoose with an average maximal age of 15.83 years
- Yellow mongoose with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- Striped skunk with an average maximal age of 12.92 years
Animals with the same weight as a Steenbok
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Raphicerus campestris:
- Capped langur with a weight of 11.21 kilos (24.71 lbs)
- Black-shanked douc with a weight of 10.33 kilos (22.77 lbs)
- Siberian musk deer with a weight of 13.31 kilos (29.34 lbs)
- Reeves’s muntjac with a weight of 13.5 kilos (29.76 lbs)
- Cape grysbok with a weight of 10.47 kilos (23.08 lbs)
- Ground pangolin with a weight of 11.92 kilos (26.28 lbs)
- Beira (antelope) with a weight of 10.91 kilos (24.05 lbs)
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo with a weight of 10.48 kilos (23.1 lbs)
- Mantled guereza with a weight of 9.96 kilos (21.96 lbs)
- Pacarana with a weight of 12.5 kilos (27.56 lbs)