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  • The least known and most obscure of all antelope are the delicate African creatures called dikdik, suni, royal antelope, pygmy antelope, and klipspringer.

    26 Mouse Deer 1991

  • But in this habitat live tiny antelope such as dikdik, suni, and klipspringer.

    26 Mouse Deer 1991

  • In the woodlands are warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus, sitatunga T. spekei, grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia, impala Aepyceros melampus and Kirk's dikdik Madoqua kirkii.

    Serengeti National Park, Tanzania 2008

  • A number of rare larger mammals are also found: dibatag (Ammodorcas clarkei, VU), Soemmerrings gazelle (Gazella soemmerringii, VU), Salts dikdik (Madoqua saltiana) and Speke's gazelle (Gazella spekei, VU).

    Hobyo grasslands and shrublands 2007

  • In almost all other ways the flora and fauna of the ecoregion is unremarkable although populations of the Dorcas gazelle (Gazella dorcas), Soemmerring's gazelle (Gazella soemmerringii) and Salt's dikdik (Madoqua saltiana) occur, and the area is located within the Somali-Masai regional center of plant endemism.

    Eritrean coastal desert 2007

  • You are coiled around the central figure, the heart that bubbles with red ghosts, since to move is to love and the scrutiny of all things is syllogistic, the startled eyes of the dikdik, the bush full of white flags fleeing a hunter, which is our democracy but the prey is always fragile and like smething, as a seashell can be

    Vitro Nasu » 2005 » June 2005

  • You are coiled around the central figure, the heart that bubbles with red ghosts, since to move is to love and the scrutiny of all things is syllogistic, the startled eyes of the dikdik, the bush full of white flags fleeing a hunter, which is our democracy but the prey is always fragile and like smething, as a seashell can be

    In Memory of My Feelings – Frank O’Hara 2005

  • This is used against wild game ranging from dikdik to elephant, and small quantities may kill a human in 20 minutes or less.

    Chapter 7 1999

  • "So you have come for a dikdik?" he asked, just short of a sneer.

    The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995

  • It was almost half as large again as the common dikdik that they had seen the previous day, and instead of drab grey its coat was a rich red brown.

    The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995

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