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| This little dik-dik facinated us ... at first glance it looks like a deer, but it is so much smaller, and has a funny, flexible nose that seemed to be constantly in motion, called a proboscis. According to Kindon (1982) "the proboscis is an adaptation for cooling that allows venous blood to cool by evaporation from the mucous membrane into the nasal cavity during normal breathing or under great heat stress from nasal panting". Whew! It must be hot where they live (extreme southeastern Somalia, central and southern Kenya, northern and central Tanzania, southwestern Angola, and Namibia). |
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