2. Their most common predators are leopards, cheetahs, jackals, and monitor lizards. However, humans are the largest predators to these animals because some hunt dik-diks and use their skin to create gloves. Unfortunately, dik-diks are such small antelopes that each hide can only make one glove.
3. Dik-diks have black tear looking features under their eyes. They produce and mark with their preorbital glandular fluid from the black spots at the corner of their eyes. Dik-diks bury their heads into the grass to spread the sticky fluid around.
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Kirks dik-diks live in areas with very little water so they make the most of every “dew drop” and drink scarcely. Due to this, dik-diks have the driest fecal matter and most concentrated urine of any ungulate.
5. Unlike 97% of the animals on earth, dik-diks live in pairs and stay committed to one mate for life (average of 17.3 years). This can also be referred to as dik-diks being monogamous.
6. 12 million years ago the dik-dik evolved in the Miocene; the fourth epoch of the tertiary