Outline:Ungulata
Family:Artiodactyls Bovidae Muntjac
length:55-90cm
Weight:3.5-9kg
Life:About 10 years
IUCN:LC
Blue Duiker (scientific name: Philantomba monticola) is also known as Blue Duiker in English. There are 12 subspecies.
Blue Duiker is most active at dawn and dusk. It mainly feeds on fruits, leaves, flowers, fungi, seeds, and sometimes insects and even small animals. Like other antelopes, they can follow monkeys and birds through the forest and pick up fallen fruit.
Blue duikers are monogamous and usually live alone or in pairs. They are very territorial. They mate and live in the same small area, which is different from other blue duikers, which regularly scent mark. They can breed all year round, with a gestation period of 196-216 days. The cubs are able to walk and run within half an hour after birth, but usually remain hidden in the bush for the first few weeks of their lives. They reach sexual maturity at about one year old, after which they are expelled from their parents' territory and live for ten years.
Listed in the "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species" (IUCN) 2016 ver 3.1 - Least Concern (LC).
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