Yellow-backed Duiker

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Yellow-backed Duiker
Conservation status
Near Threatened
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Family: Bovidae Genus: Cephalophus Species: C. silvicultor
Binomial name
Cephalophus silvicultor (Afzelius, 1815)

The Yellow-backed Duiker (Cephalophus silvicultor), is an antelope found in central and western Africa. They have the widest range of any duiker.

Yellow-backed Duikers grow to 4.8 feet in length and 30 inches (80 centimetres) high at the shoulder. They weigh around 130 pounds (60 kilogrammes). They have a dark brown to black coat, with a yellow stripe above their hindquaters. They live in dense and open rainforest, where they eat seeds, fruits, grasses, fungi, and foliage.

[edit] References

• Antelope Specialist Group (1996). Cephalophus silvicultor. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006.
• ultimateungulate.com