Salt's dik-dik
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Salt's dik-dik (Madoqua saltiana) is a small antelope found in semidesert, bushland, and thickets in the Horn of Africa, but marginally also in northern Kenya and eastern Sudan.[1] It is named after Henry Salt, who was the first European to acknowledge the species in Abyssinia in the early 19th century.[2][3]
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Salt's dik-dik | |
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Salt's dik-dik in the wild of Africa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Antilopinae |
Genus: | Madoqua |
Species: | M. saltiana |
Binomial name | |
Madoqua saltiana (de Blainville, 1816) | |
The range of Salt's dik-dik |
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