Description
Lake Nakuru NP, KENYA
Scanned slide from 2004
Date 1 March 2004, 00:00
Source Kirk's Dik-dik (Madoqua kirkii)
Author Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE https://www.flickr.com/people/65695019@N07
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirk%27s_Dik-dik_(Madoqua_kirkii)_(8290851523).jpg

Kirk's dik-dik (Madoqua kirkii) is a small antelope native to Eastern Africa and one of four species of dik-dik antelope. The dik-dik's name is derived from its call. When they feel threatened, dik-dik lie low to prevent detection. If they are discovered they run in a swift zigzag like pattern until they reach refuge in a nearby thicket. During this ‘flight’ they emit trumpet-like "zik-zik" calls to raise an alarm or to harass predators and publicize the presence of a mated pair.
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Genus: Madoqua
Species: Madoqua kirkii Günther, 1880