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Salt's dik-dik

Order : Artiodactyla
Family : Bovidae
Subfamily : Antilopinae
Species : Madoqua saltiana

 

The Salt's dik-dik is listed as Least Concern (LR/lc), lowest risk. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Facts about the Salt's dik-dik

Dorcas gazelles (Gazella dorcas) (VU) are still relatively common, although the status of other antelopes such as Soemmerring’s gazelle (Gazella soemmerringii) (VU), and Salt’s dikdik (Madoqua saltiana) is not well known (East 1999). (Full text)

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