Young Female Klipspringer
by Nikolyn McDonald
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Young Female Klipspringer
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Nikolyn McDonald
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The klipspringer, which means "rock jumper" in Afrikaans, is a small African antelope, only about 22 inches (58 cm) at the shoulder. They stand on their tiptoes and can fit all four hooves on an outcropping of cliff just over an inch (30 mm) in diameter. Both males and females have horns, but this young female is not quite a year old and her horns are just beginning to protrude. Her speckled coat is almost olive colored so she would blend in well in her native habitat: the rocky mountain shrub lands of the Cape of Good Hope through the rocky woodland hills in the rest of Southern Africa up to the rocky hills of the woodlands of East Africa and into the mountainous highlands of Ethiopia. Klipspringers are so agile on rocks and crags that eagles are their most dangerous enemies.
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January 8th, 2014
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