Klipspringer

12 July 2007

 

On route to the Twyfelfontein Rock Engravings, during my RGS visit to Namibia, we took in a loop of the surrounding country, finding Giraffe in what I thought were the most unlikely rocky surroundings and the elusive Klipspringer.

These small antelope (58cm at the shoulder) were hard to spot unless they moved, when they bounding around the kopjes (the rocky outcrops at the steep valley sides) at an astonishing pace, completely sure-footedly. Klipspringers never need to drink – being herbivores, the succulents they eat provide all the water they need.

Alkyd painting of an adult male Klipspringer. (Exhibited at NEWA 2007.)

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