Duiker
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DUIKER (diver), or DUIKERBOK, the Dutch name of a small S.
Common Duiker (Grey/Bush/Grimm's Duiker)
Sylvicapra grimmia (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Duiker
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(d´kr, d´-), name for members of a group of small, light antelopes, found in thick brush and forest over most of Africa. All stand under 25 in. (64 cm) high at the shoulder.
Duiker {Cephalophus}
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Red Duiker
Cephalophus natalensis
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Blue Duiker Baby, born 1/15/2001
The Blue Duiker can be found virtually anywhere in Africa in areas with dense vegetation or rainforests such as Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. BEHAVIOR: Blue Duikers get their food mainly by browsing.
DUIKER - sylvicapra & cephalophus
Duikers are one of the most widespread species on the continent and are a major source of protein in many villages as they live in close proximity to man and are easy to snare.
Duiker
The duiker is a small, usually solitary antelope, family Bovidae, found in Africa in and south of the Sudan
A duiker is any of about 19 small to medium-sized antelope species native to sub-Saharan Africa.
Duiker ("DIKE-er") is Africaans for "diver", due to their habit of bounding into the undergrowth when alarmed. Silva (Latin) a wood, a forest; capra (Latin) a she-goat. Named in honour of Dr.
Duikers have scent glands beneath their eyes and within their hooves that they use to mark their territory.
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The Antelope Yards are home to our red-flanked duikers.
Duiker (pronounced Die-Kur) is Africaans for "diving buck." They dive for cover with head down at any sign of danger - Main predators: leopards, small cats, civets, eagles, large owls, pythons, monitors, crocodiles
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This duiker occurs from east Nigeria to Kenya and Tanzania , southwards to Angola , Zambia , Malawi , east Zimbabwe and Mozambique ; it is also present in Natal and Cape Province and on Zanzibar , Bioko and Pemba islands (Wilson & Reeder, 1993; ...
Natal duikers consume a diet of flowers, foliage and fruit that has recently fallen from trees (2) (3). Often, duikers have been seen under trees where troops of monkeys are feeding, taking advantage of the plentiful, carelessly dropped fruit (3).
Jentink's duiker is a small forest antelope that weighs up to 70 kg (150 lb). It spends much of the year in unpopulated interior hills covered with primary forest where it feeds on forest fruits.
Duiker
Africa Mammals Guide Information: The common, or grey, Duiker is a tiny, shy antelope with only the males having short horns. The common name refers to a characteristic habit of taking off at high speed in a series of diving jumps...
In Namibia, leopards are known to prey on kudu calves, gemsbok calves, steenbok, duiker, game birds, dassies, baboons bat eared foxes and even cheetahs and any other abundant prey in the area.
During mornings and early evenings, packs search together within their home range for antelopes (duiker, reedbuck, impala, and Thomson's gazelle), as well as larger wildebeest and the occasional zebra, particularly if these prey are ill or injured.
The dominant prey of the wild dog is Thomson's gazelle, wildebeest, impala, duiker and reedbuck. At the Zoo, wild dogs are fed a base diet that includes a commercial raw meat mix which contains the nutrients essential for the animal's well being.
Diet: mainly small to medium sized antelope such as impala, duiker, hartebeest, dik-dik, springbok, kudu
Breeding Season: throughout the year
Sexual Maturity: 456 days
Gestation: about 95 days
Number of Offspring: 1-8 ...
Some of the animals they prey on include small antelope such as impala (Aepyceros melampus) and bush duiker (Sylvicapra grimmia), and old, sick or injured larger animals such as wildebeest (genus Connochaetes) and zebra (genus Equus).
There are some exceptions, including the rare zebra duiker which has dark vertical stripes, and the gemsbok which has gray and black fur and a vivid black-and-white face.
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The duiker antelopes get their name from this specie's ability to dive into the vegetation. Gazelle-sized antelope run and leap, and some species of antelope exhibit their unique behaviour of pronking or stotting.
to a length of 2 meters, or 6 feet, six inches. 3) The pollinating cricket, which was discovered on islands in the Mascarene Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. It gets its name from the fact that it pollinates an endangered orchid. 4) Walter's duiker, ...
A red duiker meandered in the bushes at the foot of the lodge. And we saw a troop of Abyssinian colobus monkeys at the forest's edge.
wing-span than the Martial Eagle (its average total length exceeds that of the Martial Eagle), the Crowned Eagle is Africa's most powerful and ferocious eagle in terms of the weight and nature of prey taken. It mainly preys on mammals such as duikers, ...
Later biologists recognized that they were not closely related to shrews and variously classified them with rabbits, primates, and ungulates (hoofed mammals). In fact, they look like miniature versions of duikers or dik-diks, ...
Some antelopes include the gazelle, eland, impala, springbok, klipspringer, oryx, saiga, waterbuck, suni, hartebeests, topi, nyala, bongo, dik-dik, kob, duiker, gemsbok, etc. They are hunted by lions, leopards, wild dogs, and other predators.
 See also: Antelope, Diver, Leopard, Crocodile, Rabbit
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