Madoqua kirkii 174239302🐃

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SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
Mammals

🐃Kirk's dik-dik

Madoqua kirkii (Günther, 1880)

Kirks dikdik (Madoqua kirkii) is een kleine antilope uit het geslacht der dikdiks (Madoqua). Het is de meest algemene soort dikdik. De dikdik dankt zijn naam aan het geluid dat hij maakt als hij schrikt en is vernoemd naar de Schotse ontdekkingsreiziger John Kirk.

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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

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

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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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
172 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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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
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
1.96 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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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