the dainty, small Dikdiks or wind-game-antelopes gets around about the horn from Africa in 5 types before as well as until in to East-Africa. The Kirk-Dikdik (Madoqua kirki) has a blasted spread-area in southwest-Africa furthermore.
Types We have the best knowledge from the Kirk-Dikdik today. its shoulder-height amounts to approximately 35-40 cm, its weight approximately 5 kg. The nose-part is extended like with the Günther-Dikdik (Madoqua guentheri) to a small trunk. The fur is dun speckled. The eyes attract attention through a white border.
Habitat Dikdiks live in the dry, stony thornbush-savanna, that offers much coverage to them with stone-blocks and dense bushes. This landscape is marked by aloe and Sansevieria-Pflanzen.
Way of life Dikdiks live individually or in pairs, and the pairs stay together durably. Females are observed with 1 or 2 boys. At the hunt, Dikdiks from its bush-hiding places are clapped, because there they hold out until a human being before it-stands directly. In such cases, it looks so as a Dikdik jumps out of each bush. Vanish in another coverage hook-beating the startled little buck then.
Dikdiks use solid changes and put down the excrement to the marking only at certain places, where high manure-piles then gather. Marks the little buck with the secretion of its pre-eye-glands furthermore at branches and such.
Dikdiks actively are mainly in the morning and evening-hours, sometimes until deep into the night in. If it worries feels, they discharge short, sharp warning-lutes by whistling unexpectedly loudly through the nose.
Reproduction 1 becomes after a Tragzeit of 6 months or more rarely born 2 kids. There are not solid Brunftzeiten. The bucks drive severely before the combination. In one year, a female can toss twice.
Frequency Kirk-Dikdiks and Günther-Dikdiks are not rare in its spread-area. Nothing known is over the frequency of the remaining Dikdiks.
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