The black duiker, Cephalophorus niger, also known as tuba in Dyula, is a forest-dwelling duiker found in the southern parts of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Benin and Nigeria. It stands around 500 millimetres at the shoulder and weighs 15 to 20 kilograms, with a black coat, a rust-coloured head and a large red crest between the ears. Its horns are long and thin, 80 to 170 millimetres, but those of females reach only 30 millimetres. It lives mainly in lowland rainforests, where it eats fruit, flowers and leaves that have fallen from the canopy. It is probably diurnal and is reported to be solitary and territorial. An estimated 100,000 are left in the world, threatened by hunting and in decline across their range.
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The black duiker (Cephalophorus niger), also known as tuba in Dyula, is a forest-dwelling duiker found in the southern parts of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, and Nigeria.
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The black duiker (Cephalophorus niger), also known as tuba in Dyula, is a forest-dwelling duiker found in the southern parts of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, and Nigeria.
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The black duiker (Cephalophorus niger), also known as tuba in Dyula, is a forest-dwelling duiker found in the southern parts of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, and Nigeria.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
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The black duiker (Cephalophorus niger), also known as tuba in Dyula, is a forest-dwelling duiker found in the southern parts of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, and Nigeria.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
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The black duiker (Cephalophorus niger), also known as tuba in Dyula, is a forest-dwelling duiker found in the southern parts of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, and Nigeria.
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The black duiker (Cephalophorus niger), also known as tuba in Dyula, is a forest-dwelling duiker found in the southern parts of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, and Nigeria.
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It is probably diurnal, though this is surmised only from captive specimens.
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An estimated 100,000 black duikers are left in the world; they are threatened by hunting and are considered to be in decline across their range.
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In captivity, the black duiker lives up to 14 years.
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The bovids (Bovidae) are the most species-rich family.
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Bovidae is the biological family of cloven-hoofed, ruminant mammals that includes cattle, bison, buffalo, antelopes, and goat-antelopes such as sheep and goats.
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