Steinbuck

• by davidbygott moderator

  If any of you are still confused by this animal - this is indeed a Steinbuck, a small antelope of open country. Most of us are probably classifying it as dikdik because there is no steinbuck category in the list.
  Steinbuck differs from dikdik by: warm tawny color instead of greyish, typical antelope muzzle instead of sharply pointed, no fuzzy crest on forehead, usually has short black streak above muzzle.
  Oribi is quite similar to steinbuck, but would have a clear black spot below base of ear, and a black-tipped tail.
  Most of these characteristics will be useful in night-time pics too.
  Scientists, anything to add?

  Posted December 23, 2012 4:57 PM

• by craigpacker scientist

  Yikes! We forgot to add steenbok/steinbuck -- that was a mistake!!

  Posted December 23, 2012 9:59 PM

• by tirralirra

  I think I've called some of these Reedbuck.

  Posted December 24, 2012 12:45 AM

• by aliburchard scientist, translator

  We did forget to add #steinbok / #steenbuck ! We don't see them very often, so it's exciting to capture them on camera. Since we can't make any immediate additions to the species list, please tag any of these guys as #steinbok and #rare-animal -- we'll start a collection and a board to track these (and anything else we may have missed) down.

  Posted December 24, 2012 4:19 AM

• by catxx

  I think I may have mistakenly tagged a few of these as Reedbuck too.

  Posted December 24, 2012 10:58 PM