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Kirk's dik-dik in Namibia
Shy sprinter
It took the help of a telephoto lens to capture this little antelope's extreme close-up. (You can tell by this photo's stark depth of field – notice the crisp focus on the eyes that turns soft towards the nose). Tiny in stature, the Kirk's dik-dik survives on supreme skittishness, hiding away in scrubby thickets from predators and photographers alike. When a female dik-dik is startled, it'll take off like a shot in a zigzagging, 40-kilometre-per-hour sprint, chattering warnings to its fellows with an onomatopoeic shout of 'dik-dik-dik'. Kirk's dik-dik is split into two populations in eastern and southwestern Africa – this west-coaster was spotted in the wilds of Namibia in its habitat along the Fish River.
Shy sprinter
It took the help of a telephoto lens to capture this little antelope's extreme close-up. (You can tell by this photo's stark depth of field – notice the crisp focus on the eyes that turns soft towards the nose). Tiny in stature, the Kirk's dik-dik survives on supreme skittishness, hiding away in scrubby thickets from predators and photographers alike. When a female dik-dik is startled, it'll take off like a shot in a zigzagging, 40-kilometre-per-hour sprint, chattering warnings to its fellows with an onomatopoeic shout of 'dik-dik-dik'. Kirk's dik-dik is split into two populations in eastern and southwestern Africa – this west-coaster was spotted in the wilds of Namibia in its habitat along the Fish River.
This tiny antelope's unusual name comes from the equally unusual sound it makes.
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