🐃Kirk's dik-dik
커크딕딕 또는 커크작은영양(Madoqua kirkii)은 동아프리카에 서식하는 작은 영양의 일종이다. 4종의 딕딕 중의 하나이다. 6종의 아종이 알려져 있으며, 7번째 아종이 서남아프리카에 서식하는 것으로 추정하고 있다. 딕딕은 초식동물로 엷은 황갈색을 띠며, 이는 사바나 서식지에서 자신을 보호하기 역할을 한다. 1985년 맥도날드(MacDonald)가 측정한 기록에 의하면 커크딕딕은 최대 시속 42km까지 달릴 수 있다. 야생에서 수명은 5년 정도지만 10년을 넘을 수도 있다. 동물원 등에서 수컷은 최대 16.5년, 암컷은 18.4년을 살기도 한다.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- 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
Everything we know about the Kirk's dik-dik
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass4.83 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female5.13 kgWikidataQ833607
- Male4.59 kgWikidataQ833607
Figures vary
- 5 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.69 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass35 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan17 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 17 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length5.83 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity233 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation172 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 172 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density1.96 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l4.8 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderArtiodactyla
- ›familyBovidae
- ›genusMadoqua
- ›speciesMadoqua kirkii
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- familyBovidae
- genusMadoqua
All 15 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderRuminantia
- infraorderPecora
- familyBovidae
- genusMadoqua
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