Talk:Dik-dik

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[edit] Number of species of dik-dik?

The article as of a few days ago said there were three species, I corrected it to five species upon the basis of the statement "The five species of dik-dik, with the exception of Kirk's dik-dik, are only found in eastern and northeastern Africa. Kirk's dik-dik, which is described here, is one of the most common. It is also found in southwestern Africa." by the African Wildlife Foundation, however Gdr has changed this number to four. Gdr added another source, so perhaps this source lists four species, but there is clearly a difference in sources. --Matthew 22:10, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

• ITIS lists four species. So does Mammal Species of the World [1]. The African Wildlife Foundation may be mistaken, or may be distinguishing species that are synonymized by others. Since it doesn't actually list the species, it's hard to tell. Gdr 22:26, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

• I am strongly inclined to trust the sources found by Gdr over the AWF, and have e-mailed their office to see if they are aware of the error, or if they have documentation of an additional species. --Matthew 22:31, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species also only lists 4. It seems that only commercial hunting related sites list a fifth species, Cordeaux's Dik-dik (Madoqua cordeauxi) - Rooivalk 23:25, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

According to [2], M. cordeauxi is synonymous with M. saltiana. Gdr 13:34, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Their food

They eat Acasietrees. Saw it on a documentary on Animal Planet. "Walking with Mammals" or so by David Attenborough. If someone knows, please add the other mammal that also eats from the acasietrees, giraffs, dik-diks and another one standing high on its backleggs.

I reverted the junk edits by 199.71.136.69, looks like a school IP with mostly crap edits. --brion 01:34, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Weasel words in section behavior

"It is often believed that"... Suggest state who believes this, and cite a source. Either that or just state that this happens, not that it is often believed that it happens. Jerry lavoie 04:33, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Social structure

At 2007-04-13T01:53:16 this read "Dik-diks form monogamous relationships within defined territories." By 2007-04-13T15:09:50 it had been augmented with "Once one of the pair of life partners dies the remaining dik-dik will starve itself to death."; while this looks possible, it was added by 62.49.60.248 who also added "muffins" to the diet.

Then at 2007-04-14T09:00:23, 81.103.70.171 upgraded it to "Once one of the pair of life partners dies the remaining dik-dik will have a homsexual relationship with another widowed Dik Dik.", simultaneously reducing the age of sexual maturity from 8 months to 8 days. More recently Czj corrected the spelling and added a citation-needed tag.

I don't believe any of it. FJPB 20:43, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image

I have a clearer photograph of a male Dik-dik. Will anybody be offended if I add it or replace the exiting image?

Cheers, Pedrito 14:57, 30 August 2007 (UTC)