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Madoqua kirkii 174239302🐃

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SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
Mammals

🐃Kirk's dik-dik

Madoqua kirkii (Günther, 1880)

Madoqua kirkii або Дікдік Кірка — маленька антилопа, що мешкає в Східній Африці, і належить до родини Бикові, підродини справжніх антилоп і є одним з чотирьох представників роду Дікдік. Виділяють від чотирьох до семи підвидів. Живуть близько п'яти років, але в неволі можуть доживати і до сімнадцяти.

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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

Figures vary

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

Age at maturity
233 days
COMBINE
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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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