Salt's Dik-Dik

Salt's dik-dik, Madoqua saltiana, is a small antelope found in semidesert, bushland and thickets in the Horn of Africa, but marginally also in northern Kenya and eastern Sudan. It is named after Henry Salt, who was the first European to acknowledge the species in Abyssinia in the early 19th century. Salt's dik-diks are 52 to 67 centimetres long, 33 to 41 centimetres high and weigh 2.5 to 4 kilograms, and as in other dik-diks only the male has the small pointed horns. Together with the silver dik-dik the species forms the subgenus Madoqua, and under the 1978 review it has five subspecies, whose colour varies significantly. It is mainly crepuscular.