Yellow-backed Duiker
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| Yellow-backed Duiker | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Genus: | Cephalophus |
| Species: | C. silvicultor |
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| Cephalophus silvicultor (Afzelius, 1815) |
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The Yellow-backed Duiker (Cephalophus silvicultor), is an antelope found in central and western Africa. They have the widest range of any duiker in the genus Cephalophus.
Yellow-backed Duikers grow 3.8-4.8 feet in length and 30 inches (80 centimetres) high at the shoulder. They weigh around 130 pounds (80 kilogrammes). Their coat is dark brown to black, with a yellow stripe above their hindquarters. They live in dense and open rainforest, where they eat seeds, fruits, grasses, fungi, and foliage.
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- ^ IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group (2008). Cephalophus silvicultor. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 16 January 2009.
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