Man And Beast in Eastern Ethiopia From Observations Made in British East Afric
Man And Beast in Eastern Ethiopia From Observations Made in British East Afric
John Bland Sutton
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They possess elongated hairy noses and a tuft of hair on their crowns : the horns are short, straight, almost vertical, and possessed by the male only. The head of the Dik-dik, Afadoquu i/itentheri. The smallest antelope in East Africa. Dik-dik (sometimes called Dig-dig) is the native name. Its chief peculiarity is its long hairy snout and short tail. The skull is also remarkable for the shortness of the nasal bones and the large size of the nasal chamber. The dik-diks are about fourteen inches... high at the shoulders, with a body no bigger than that of a rabbit. These small antelopes were discovered by Henry Salt, who travelled in Abyssinia in the early part 294 EASTERN ETHIOPIA XXIII of the nineteenth century. Madoque was the native name of these little animals. Several species have since been discovered and one of them, Gunther's dik-dik, is found around Lake Baringo. A Karamojo Necklace made of the finger bones of the Dik-dik. The bones in the middle show the bone (p halanx) of natural size ; A, anterior ; B, posterior view.
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