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Madoqua kirkii 174239302🐃

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SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
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🐃Kirk's dik-dik

Madoqua kirkii (Günther, 1880)

キルクディクディク (学名: Madoqua kirkii) とは、東アフリカに原生する小さなレイヨウの一種であり、4種類確認されているディクディク属レイヨウの一種である。6亜種もしくは7亜種が南西アフリカに生息していると考えられている。ディクディク属は草食動物であり、また一般的には淡い黄褐色の体をしているため、その特徴が生息地のサバンナで身を隠すことに役立っている。マクドナルド (1985年)によると、時速42キロメートルにも及ぶ速さで走ることも可能である。野生のキルクディクディクの一般的な寿命は5年ほどだが、10年を超すこともある。一方で、捕獲され飼育された雄が16.5歳まで、メスが18.4歳まで生きたことが知られている。

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≈ 1/13th of your weight
Also called
Kirk’s Dik-dik, Kirk’s Dikdik
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
4.83 kg
Body length
0.69 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
17 years
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Everything we know about the Kirk's dik-dik

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Body mass
4.83 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female5.13 kgWikidataQ833607
  • Male4.59 kgWikidataQ833607

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  • 5 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.69 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
35 g
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Maximum lifespan
17 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 17 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
5.83 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
233 days
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Gestation
172 days
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  • 172 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Population density
1.96 per km²
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Volume l
4.8 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Kirk's dik-dik yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants100%
In other languages
Kirk-Dikdik (de), Dik-dik de Kirk (fr), Dik-dik (pt), Dikdik Kirka (pl), Обыкновенный дикдик (ru), Madoqua kirkii (es) … and 19 more languages
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