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Duikers To Watch Out For

@duikers2watchout4.bsky.social

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An account dedicated to the appreciation of miniature bovids. Posts when I remember to post. All images property of their respective owners. DM with any complaints or concerns. Pointers to further adorable duiker content always welcome.

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Duikers To Watch Out For @duikers2watchout4.bsky.social · Jan 11

Clarification of scope: This account is intended to be duiker-centric, but I plan to occasionally share others' skeets about klipspringers, dik-diks, and other adorable miniature bovids.

Duikers To Watch Out For @duikers2watchout4.bsky.social · 7d

Happy World Okapi Day to all who observe!

Duikers To Watch Out For @duikers2watchout4.bsky.social · Mar 25

Important duiker-okapi friendship content.

youtube.com/shorts/lzUYm...

Ruby and Bokasi: the dynamic duo you didn't know you needed

YouTube video by San Diego Zoo

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sid (scary version) @sidvicious.ca · 26d

a seal and a dikdik

a seal sticking its head out the water done in ink and watercolor

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Duikers To Watch Out For @duikers2watchout4.bsky.social · 9d

red forest duiker (Cephalophus natalensis) parent and child at Bioparc Valencia.

source: www.bioparcvalencia.es/en/most-impo...

Photo of two red forest duikers (small reddish-brown antelope). An adult (left) and a calf (right).

Duikers To Watch Out For @duikers2watchout4.bsky.social · 15d

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An Antelope That Can Only Be Seen At BIOPARC Valencia Is Born In Public View

YouTube video by ZooBorns

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official gogurt @officialgogurt.bsky.social · 21d

please. my dik-dik pic.. pic...

image of two small deer-like creatures, called a dik-dik. they are. so cute? it's largely due to their saucer like eyes in their small heads, set against roundish bodies with their little legs. so cute.

close up image often head and face of the dik-dik, a graceful and beautiful creature with large eyes and brown fur

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🎃🧡𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐏𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐤𝐢𝐧-𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐋𝐮𝐢𝐠𝐢🧡🎃 @drucifer.bsky.social · 21d

hello dik-dik i am klipspringer do u wanna be friends?

photo of a tiny adorable antelope called a klipspringer, standing among large boulders. it has tiny pointy horns like little bugles snacks, and funny black and white striped ears. it has a vaguely long neck that’s almost reminiscent of a llama

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Duikers To Watch Out For @duikers2watchout4.bsky.social · 16d

I'm pretty sure that's a klipspringer rather than a dik-dik.

(Klipspringers are also great.)

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Merlin +150 @dhscomix.com · 21d

just a polite lil duiker guy

mwweeeeehehehehhh

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Houston Zoo @houstonzoo.bsky.social · 26d

POV: You passed our yellow-backed duiker Melman’s sniff test 💛

📸: Hoofstock Keeper Emma

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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · Sep 19

This little duiker was rescued by one of our SWT/KWS Anti-Poaching Teams, after he was found all alone by herders. He was on his last legs, so they asked the team to help. Collected by one of our pilots, Roan popped him on his lap for the flight to Kaluku, where he's receiving the care he needs.

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Duikers To Watch Out For @duikers2watchout4.bsky.social · Sep 25

bushbuck-duiker friendship content

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK8M...

Unlikely Friends: Baby Bushbuck Grooms Blue Duiker in Touching Bond

YouTube video by Tekweni

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Duikers To Watch Out For @duikers2watchout4.bsky.social · Sep 7

Sorry, when I wrote the alt text I didn't notice the parent duiker is licking the baby duiker's head, presumably to help clean it?

Duikers To Watch Out For @duikers2watchout4.bsky.social · Sep 7

Bay duikers (Cephalophus dorsalis) at ZooTampa, 2025.

Image source: www.ospreyobserver.com/2025/08/its-...

Photo of two bay duikers (small antelope) standing on a sandy surface with a wooden wall/fence behind them. An adult on the left of the frame has warm brown fur on most of its body but black on its lower legs, the top of its head, and its spine. It is keeping an eye on a younger and smaller duiker with more gray-brown fur, which is located on the right side of the frame and slightly closer to the camera than the adult.

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Duikers To Watch Out For @duikers2watchout4.bsky.social · Mar 25

Important duiker-okapi friendship content.

youtube.com/shorts/lzUYm...

Ruby and Bokasi: the dynamic duo you didn't know you needed

YouTube video by San Diego Zoo

youtube.com

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Duikers To Watch Out For @duikers2watchout4.bsky.social · Aug 28

Yellow-backed duiker (Cephalophus silvicultor) at Houston Zoo, c. 2011.

Photo by Stephanie Adam. Image source: www.zooborns.com/zooborns/201...

Photo of a yellow-backed duiker (Cephalophus silvicultor) - a midsized antelope - taken more or less facing the duiker except that its head is turned a bit to one side, so that it looks like it might be sniffing something just to the right of the lens. The image is shot relatively close to the duiker with a wide angle lens, so its face fills a significant part of the image, and exaggerated perspective makes its head appear very large/prominent relative to its body. The duiker's back is not visible. The the visible parts of the duiker's body and the top part of its head are dark brown, which fades to a cream color around its mouth and along its jaw line.

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Duikers To Watch Out For @duikers2watchout4.bsky.social · Aug 20

If you're looking for maximum portability, you may also wish to consider the royal antelope, which is even smaller.

www.joelsartore.com/search/royal...

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Duikers To Watch Out For @duikers2watchout4.bsky.social · Aug 20

(This is not meant to encourage you to pursue this. There are many reasons why trying to keep klipspringers as yard pets or landscape critters could end badly for you, the klipspringers, or the ecosystem wherever you live, although I do very much understand the temptation.)

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Duikers To Watch Out For @duikers2watchout4.bsky.social · Aug 20

Per wikipedia, adult klipspringers range from 8kg to 18kg, so less convenient to move than babies, but still probably within the realm of carry-ability, as long as they don't object to being carried.

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Duikers To Watch Out For @duikers2watchout4.bsky.social · Aug 20

Blue dikers (Philantomba monticola) at Abilene Zoo, summer 2025.

Image source: www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news/abilene...

Photo of a blue duiker adult and calf standing on dirt strewn with straw and looking generally adorable. There's what looks like a wooden or bamboo fence in the background.

If you don't know what a blue duiker (Philantomba monticola) is, it's a type of adorable tiny antelope (adults range from 3.5kg to 9kg) that varies in color but is often only blue in the very loose sense in which the term is used to describe fur. I'd describe the two in the picture as greyish brown with white undersides, but I have a color vision disability so I'm not the best authority on the finer details of this.

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JustJoy @sweetpea100852.bsky.social · Aug 6

Pic of the day - a red duiker grazing peacefully.
Usually these small antelope are very skittish. This fella seemed quite unconcerned about us
#SouthAfrica #photography #nature #wildlife #iloveafrica

A sweet red duiker grazing on the green grass

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Jessi 💫 @jessigrace.bsky.social · Jul 31

In case you're having a bad day, here's a baby klipspringer antelope

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Duikers To Watch Out For @duikers2watchout4.bsky.social · Jul 29

This is an excellent duiker.

Quick Photography @quickphotography.bsky.social · Jul 26

Red-flanked Duiker
(Cephalophus rufilatus)

TINY - only 15 in (38 cm)tall, they can survive w/o water on plants, seeds, flowers but are nearly the only antelope to eat insects + carrion. They use preorbital glands (black lines) on their cheeks to mark territory. #duiker #photography #portrait #cute

Duikers To Watch Out For @duikers2watchout4.bsky.social · Jul 28

The photo in question was this photo of a lesser mouse-deer at the Singapore Zoo.

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File:Mouse-deer Singapore Zoo 2012.JPG - Wikimedia Commons

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Duikers To Watch Out For @duikers2watchout4.bsky.social · Jul 28

Resisting the urge to reply to an algorithmically-promoted FB post to point out that they've mislabeled a photo of a lesser mouse-deer (Tragulus kanchil) as a Vietnam mouse-deer (Tragulus versicolor).

(I know this is outside this account's mandate but it feels like it's in the right spirit.)

Duikers To Watch Out For @duikers2watchout4.bsky.social · Jul 21

teeny hooves!

www.youtube.com/shorts/Xps4D...

Teeny Hoofed Friends

YouTube video by San Diego Zoo