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Dik-дик
Дик-дик - небольшая антилопа в роде Мадокуа, которая живет в кустарниках восточной и южной Африки. Dik-diks стоят около 30-40 см в плече, имеют длину 50-70 см, весить 3-6 кг и могут жить до 10 лет. Dik-diks названы для тревожных звонков женщин. В дополнение к тревожному звонку женщин, как мужчины, так и женщины создают пронзительный свистящий звук. Эти призывы могут предупреждать других животных хищникам.
Значение слова dik-dik в словаре английский языка
Определение слова dik-dik в словаре - это любая небольшая антилопа рода Madoqua, обитающая в полузасушливых регионах Африки, имеющая удлиненную морду, а у мужчин - небольшие толстые рога.
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Stalking the Wild
Dik-
Dik: One Woman's Solo Misadventures ...
Traces the author's solitary travels across the African continent in 2001 and 2005, during which she experienced firsthand the challenges of its terrain and social disadvantages, and gained a strong admiration of the region's dignity, ...
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The
Dik-
Dik's Solitude: New & Selected Works
With new and previously published work as well as an introductory interview with the author and prominent poet Lyn Hejinian, "The Dik-dik's Solitude" is the first comprehensive collection of work by this significant, avant-garde ...
Anne Tardos, Lyn Hejinian,
2003
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The Behavior Guide to African Mammals: Including Hoofed ...
Cape grysbok R sharpe/, Sharpe's grysbok R campestris, steenbok Madoqua, dik
-diks' M. saltiana, Salt's dik-dik (includes phillipsi and swayne/) M. piacentinii,
Piacentini's dik-dik M. guentheri, Guenther's dik-dik M. kirkii, Kirk's dik-dik ...
BOTH WANTED By WALTER J. WILWERDING THE SUN WAS SETTING in
Tanganyika, East Africa, as a tiny Dik-dik antelope followed his parents along a
dusty game trail hedged high by thorn bushes. He was only ten inches high but
built ...
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Afghanistan to Zambia: Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
The first sight he ever had ofa dik-dik was up close, real close. His old E-Mail
nickname “DikDik” comes as no co-incidence. It was a hint of Africa and a
reminder that his first dik-dik took a bite out of his leg before he even laid eyes on
him.
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Kingdoms of Life - Animals (ENHANCED eBook)
Gina Hamilton. (Fig.6B) Night blooming jasmine and Buffy Flower Bat (Fig.6C)
Egyptian Plover in mouth of Nile crocodile (Fig.6D) Dik-Dik in anteater burrow (
Fig.6E) Tapeworm (Fig.6F) Carbon cycle Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere.
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Summers Off: The Worldwide Adventures of a Schoolteacher
I started walking toward the eating area slowly following a dik-dik. A dik-dik is a
tiny deer with big ears that walks as lightly and deliberately as a kung fu master. I
assumed that if Tusker was not directly behind me, he would soon catch up to the
...
Larry "Jungle" Shortell,
2011
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Laibon: An Anthropologist’s Journey with Samburu Diviners in ...
The blue beads were worn only by members of the Lonyoki family, and the dik-
dik horn containing ntasim was worn only by the immediate family members.
Lonyoki gave me the beads to wear around my neck and said that he was
adopting ...
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Search for the Loony Man
But I do know he boarded his yacht docked at the Dik-Dik River pier. He had a,
well, a trained navy crew the way they worked together, and sailed north-
northeast. You know what was strange? I asked him where he was shipping, and
he said ...
Guenther's dik-dik. In this proboscis, an enlarged nasal chamber richly supplied
with blood is efficiently cooled by rapid nasal panting, with minimal loss of water
in the exhaled air. With other water- and energy-conserving measures (
fluctuating ...
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dik-dik в контексте приведенных ниже новостных статей.
See East Africa's lesser spotted creatures on Kenya's wildlife trail …
By day, diminutive dik-dik antelopes pick their way along the shaded boardwalks; after dark, buffalo troop down to the floodlit waterhole, while ... «The Independent, Июл 15»
Allegory #671: Stripes and scales
If the buffalo were going to let the grey wolf and the coyote get away with their predations, who were they to suggest that the dik-dik should hold ... «eNCA, Июн 15»
African Safari adds three new hands-on animal exhibits
Along the path are a white alligator, a tiny African antelope called a dik-dik, a monkey-like relative of raccoons called a kinkajou, and more. «Port Clinton News Herald, Июн 15»
Study shows African savannah able to support large number of …
The types of animals the team studied included dik-dik, wildebeest, Grevy's zebra, plains zebra, Cape buffalo and elephants, a group that made ... «Phys.Org, Июн 15»
Leading Off (3/24/15)
I'd like to add that I am dik-dik delighted about the whole thing. Bird Forces Dallas Police Helicopter To Make Emergency Landing. This is what ... «D Magazine, Мар 15»
What I learned about myself by watching monkeys, Part 1
There was also a resident dik-dik, the world's smallest antelope. And, of course, baboons. Baboons went anywhere and everywhere they ... «Chestnut Hill Local, Мар 15»
Watch: Tatton Park staff give hundreds of stuffed animal trophy …
The animals, collected by Maurice Egerton, range from the very small African antelope, Kirk's dik-dik to the enormous Canadian moose from ... «Manchester Evening News, Мар 15»
Walking Safari in Northern Kenya
Out on the plains where Tilas led us on foot one morning, we saw dik-dik, gerenuk, and impala. We watched a lone, sleeping lion from just a ... «Huffington Post, Дек 14»
10 of the easiest mountains to climb around the world
The highlight of this mountain is the opportunity to spot wildlife on its lower slopes, including water buffalo, giraffe, warthog and dik-dik. You will ... «The Guardian, Ноя 14»
Interpol launches most-wanted list of environmental fugitives
... four ground hornbill, five spring hares, six oryx, seven kori bustard, 10 dik-dik, 20 Grant's gazelle, 68 Thomson's gazelle, and a secretary bird. «The Guardian, Ноя 14»