{"id":2862,"date":"2013-10-22T10:52:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T09:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2013-12-04T17:14:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T16:14:47","slug":"did-you-know-d-is-for-dik-dik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/22\/did-you-know-d-is-for-dik-dik\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know?  D is for Dik-Dik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure all you hardened safari goers knew D was for Dik-Dik. I was sorely tempted to do D is for Dinosaur, but sensibility prevailed at the end of the day, so Dik-Dik it is.<\/p>\n<p>So here goes &#8211; 10 useful and interesting facts about this little fellow:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 The dik-dik is the smallest antelope found in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>2. They stand a mere 30-40 cm at the shoulder (ahhh, sooo sweet!)<\/p>\n<p>3. Females are larger than the males.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Only the males have horns which are a massive 7.5 cm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0 They are called dik-dik after the alarm call made by the females.<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0 They normally live in pairs and will mate for life.<\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0 There are 4 species of dik-dik &#8211; the Gunther&#8217;s dik-dik, the Kirk&#8217;s dik-dik; the Silver dik-dik and the Salt&#8217;s dik-dik.<\/p>\n<p>8.\u00a0 Females weigh about 560 to 680\u00a0g (1.2\u20131.4\u00a0lb) at birth, while males weigh 725 to 795\u00a0g (1.5\u20131.7\u00a0lb).<\/p>\n<p>9.\u00a0 The survival rate for baby dik-diks is only 50%.<\/p>\n<p>10. They can reach speeds up to 42\u00a0km (26\u00a0miles) an hour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/150-dreamstimeextralarge_14785586-ETOSHA-DIK-DIK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2863\" alt=\"150 dreamstimeextralarge_14785586 ETOSHA DIK DIK\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/150-dreamstimeextralarge_14785586-ETOSHA-DIK-DIK.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/150-dreamstimeextralarge_7342207-ETOSHA-DIK-DIK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2864\" alt=\"Damara Dik-Dik (Madoqua damarensis)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/150-dreamstimeextralarge_7342207-ETOSHA-DIK-DIK.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure all you hardened safari goers knew D was for Dik-Dik. I was sorely tempted to do D is for Dinosaur, but sensibility prevailed at the end of the day, so Dik-Dik it is. So here goes &#8211; 10 useful and interesting facts about this little fellow: 1.\u00a0 The dik-dik is the smallest [&#8230;] <a class=\"read-more\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/22\/did-you-know-d-is-for-dik-dik\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1032,1121,1122,1123],"class_list":["post-2862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-safari","tag-dik-dik","tag-gunthers","tag-smallest-antelope","tag-sweet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}