How big does a Zebra duiker get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Zebra duiker (Cephalophus zebra) reaches an average size of 87.5 cm (2′ 11″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 12.17 years, they grow from 1.7 kg (3.75 lbs) to 15.53 kg (34.23 lbs). A Zebra duiker has 1 babies at once. The Zebra 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 zebra duiker (Cephalophus zebra) is a small antelope found primarily in Liberia, as well as the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, and occasionally Guinea. They are sometimes referred to as the banded duiker or striped-back duiker. It is believed to be one of the earliest duiker species to have evolved.
Animals of the same family as a Zebra duiker
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Urial with 1 babies per litter
- Puku with a size of 1.34 meter (4′ 5″)
- Klipspringer with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Ogilby’s duiker with a size of 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Harnessed bushbuck with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest bringing 168.7 kilos (371.92 lbs) to the scale
- East Caucasian tur with 1 babies per litter
- Przewalski’s gazelle bringing 27.5 kilos (60.63 lbs) to the scale
- Grant’s gazelle with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Bohor reedbuck with a size of 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
Animals with the same size as a Zebra duiker
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Zebra duiker:
- Fossa (animal) with a size of 72.7 cm (2′ 5″)
- Thomson’s gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Caracal with a size of 74.1 cm (2′ 6″)
- Siamang with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Chimpanzee with a size of 79.6 cm (2′ 8″)
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with a size of 71.7 cm (2′ 5″)
- Rhim gazelle with a size of 1.03 meter (3′ 5″)
- Peters’s duiker with a size of 1.02 meter (3′ 4″)
- Proserpine rock-wallaby with a size of 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Indian crested porcupine with a size of 75 cm (2′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Zebra duiker
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Zebra duiker:
- Long-tongued nectar bat
- Moose
- Gerenuk
- Southern tamandua
- Niceforo’s big-eared bat
- Michoacan deer mouse
- Nancy Ma’s night monkey
- Steller sea lion
- African brush-tailed porcupine
- Rough-haired golden mole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Zebra duiker
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Zebra duiker:
- Long-tailed porcupine with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Desert rat-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Red-fronted gazelle with an average maximal age of 13.5 years
- Banded palm civet with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Greater bamboo lemur with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Mountain nyala with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Sharpe’s grysbok with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 12.33 years
Animals with the same weight as a Zebra duiker
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cephalophus zebra:
- Alpine musk deer with a weight of 13.6 kilos (29.98 lbs)
- Hairy-fronted muntjac with a weight of 18.45 kilos (40.68 lbs)
- Northern plains gray langur with a weight of 12.64 kilos (27.87 lbs)
- Gray brocket with a weight of 16.4 kilos (36.16 lbs)
- Chacma baboon with a weight of 17.73 kilos (39.09 lbs)
- Indian muntjac with a weight of 17.51 kilos (38.6 lbs)
- Mandrill with a weight of 16.74 kilos (36.91 lbs)
- Klipspringer with a weight of 13.46 kilos (29.67 lbs)
- Siberian musk deer with a weight of 13.31 kilos (29.34 lbs)
- Swamp wallaby with a weight of 15 kilos (33.07 lbs)