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Klippspringer
Klipspringers are small antelope, ideally suited to their rocky habitat. They move on the tips of their unique hooves which are of a consistency of very hard rubber. In this region only males have horns, but in the parts of Tanzania and further north, some females carry weak thinner horns. They have clearly seen rounded preorbital glands immediately in front of the eyes. As the same suggest they make their home in rocky areas, they use anything from rocky boulder-strewn riverbeds, rocky outcrops on plains, to rocky boulder-strewn riverbeds, rocky outcrops on plains to rocky hills and kranzes. They are very fast and agile, leaping and bouncing up impossible rock faces from boulder to boulder, easy eluding any pursuer.
They are diurnal and are most active in the early morning and late afternoons, but in cooler weather are active throughout the day. They are mainly browsers but also graze extensively. They will eat twigs, leaves, mosses, grasses and fruit often standing up on their hind legs to reach succulent food. They are not dependent on water, assimilating all that is necessary from their diet. They will however drink, if water is available.
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