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duiker

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1. any small antelope of the genera Cephalophus and Sylvicapra, occurring throughout Africa south of the Sahara, having short straight backward-pointing horns, pointed hooves, and an arched back
2. South African any of several cormorants, esp the long-tailed shag (Phalacrocorax africanus)
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They've taken a couple of huge forest sitatungas, which maybe the most difficult of all, and most hunters add forest duikers. We saw bay, Peters,' and blue duikers, and much sign of the big yellowback duiker, but Jason didn't have time and I'd had these from previous safaris.
The methodology to duiker calling is not difficult.
But now, according to a report in National Geographic News, a recent study found DNA from monkeys and small forest antelopes called duikers in the feces of wild African mountain gorillas in Loango National Park in Gabon in Africa.
The virus infects people, gorillas, chimpanzees, and small antelope called duikers.
Three species were very abundant: (1) blue duikers ([delta] = 0.315 signs/km), (2) red river hogs ([delta] = 0.19 signs/km), and (3) bay duikers ([delta] = 0.155 signs/km).
30 Duikers are small and shy types of which kind of African animal?
GREY DUIKERS AND BANDS OF IMPALA ARRIVED, BUT WE ONLY WATCHED AND WAITED.
Epidemiologic investigations showed that at least 2 duikers, 2 chimpanzees, and 2 gorilla carcasses were involved or suspected of being involved in the infection of 6 human index patients.
Immense Sapelli and Okoume trees tower over the forest floor, and small antelopes called duikers plunge through the undergrowth while the calls of bonobos and sooty mangabeys sound from the leafy canopy.
Lamba hears what he says is a yellow-backed duiker, the largest of the duikers.