Two Kirk's dik dik seen on safari.
The dikdik's name is derived from its call. When they feel threatened, dikdiks lie low to prevent detection. If they are discovered, they run in a swift, zigzaglike pattern until they reach refuge in a nearby thicket. During this ‘flight’, they emit trumpetlike "zikzik" calls to raise an alarm or to harass predators and publicize the presence of a mated pair.
Dikdiks are some of the world's smallest antelopes, with the largest, the Kirk's dikdik, standing between 14 and 18 inches tall and weighing no more than 7.2 kg (16 lb). Female dikdiks tend to be 1 to 2 pounds heavier than males. They are dainty creatures with a pointed, mobile snout, large eyes and ears, prominent preorbital glands, pipestem legs, harelike hind limbs that are significantly larger than their forelimbs, and a vestigial tail. Their coats, depending upon their habitat, range from grey to graybrown with tan flanks, limbs, and an erectile head crest and whitish eye rings, ear lining, underparts, and rump.
Only male dikdiks sport horns, which are about 3 in (8 cm) long, corrugated, and backwardslanted. Horns of male Kirk's dikdiks may be straight or curved backwards from the profile of the face, and the basal half of the horns have seven to nine annular ridges that are frequently covered by the crest. Kirk's dikdiks are sexually dimorphic; females are larger and lack horns, while males sport a more developed muzzle, have a longer crest, and tend to be lighter in color.

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