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Madoqua guentheri. Thomas, 1894 [2] The range of Günther's dik-dik Günther's dik-dik (Madoqua guentheri) is a small antelope found in arid zones of East Africa.
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.
Madoqua saltiana: 485 600 [106] LC [106] [106] Günther's dik-dik: Madoqua guentheri: 511 000 [107] LC [107] [107] American bison: Bison bison: 530 000 [108] NT [108] [108] Includes 500 000 semi-domestic animals and 30 000 wild (19 000 plains bison and 11 000 wood bison). [108] Thomson's gazelle: Eudorcas thomsonii: 550 000 [109] LC [109] [109 ...
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]
Madoqua. Günther's dik-dik M. guentheri; Kirk's dik-dik M. kirkii; Silver dik-dik M. piacentinii; Salt's dik-dik M. saltiana; Neotragus. Royal antelope N. pygmaeus; Ourebia. Oribi O. ourebi; Raphicerus. Steenbok R. campestris; Cape grysbok R. melanotis; Sharpe's grysbok R. sharpei; Some mammalogists (Haltenorth, 1963) [2] considered this group ...
For example, Günther's dik-dik (Madoqua guentheri) is a monogamous species of antelope that lives in a permanent territory, the boundaries of which the animals mark several times a day by actively pressing the preorbital glands to grasses and low-lying plants and applying the secretions. In this territorial animal, the preorbital glands remain ...
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Ethiopia.There are 279 mammal species in Ethiopia, of which five are critically endangered, eight are endangered, twenty-seven are vulnerable, and twelve are near threatened.
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.