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A dik-dik is the name for any of four species of small antelope in the genus Madoqua, which live in the bushlands of eastern and southern Africa. [1]Dik-diks stand about 30–40 centimetres (12–15.5 in) at the shoulder, are 50–70 cm (19.5–27.5 in) long, weigh 3–6 kilograms (6.6–13.2 lb) and can live for up to 10 years.
Kirk's dik-dik (Madoqua kirkii) is a species of small dik-dik antelope native to Eastern and Southern Africa. [1] [2] It is believed to have six subspecies and possibly a seventh existing in southwest Africa. [3] Dik-diks are herbivores, typically of a fawn color that aids in camouflaging themselves in savannah habitats. [3]
Salt's dik-dik (Madoqua saltiana) is a small antelope found in semidesert, bushland, and thickets in the Horn of Africa, but marginally also in northern Kenya and eastern Sudan. [1] It is named after Henry Salt , who was the first European to acknowledge the species in Abyssinia in the early 19th century.
In 1911, Mother de Bethanie Crowley and five Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady traveled to America, stating their desire to serve the sick and needy. [1] Eight years after establishing a hospital in Monroe, Louisiana, Mother de Bethanie was invited to Baton Rouge by Monsignor Francis Leon Gassler of St. Joseph's Cathedral and a group of leading local physicians, to tour the downtown area in ...
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Madoqua piacentinii Drake-Brockman, 1911 [ 2 ] The silver dik-dik ( Madoqua piacentinii ) is a small antelope found in low, dense thickets along the southeastern coast of Somalia and in Acacia - Commiphora bushland in the Shebelle Valley in southeastern Ethiopia . [ 1 ]