Great video of zoo-housed yellow-backed duiker family
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jwidness
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The Cincinnati Zoo has a yellow-backed duiker family and recently posted a nice long video of them. You can see the little one has no yellow on her back at all! I especially love the close-ups of her head where you can see the teeny tiny horn buds and the hint of a tuft of red hair. : ) You can also see some mating behavior from the dad -- lots of sniffing and licking, a flehmen response, and an attempted mounting. Maybe the little one will have a new sibling before too long ; )
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Snorticus
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Wow, that golden dorsal stripe against the glossy dark brown is just stunning in this extended daylight look at them! I wonder if they are still nocturnal in artificial non-predator environments like zoos?
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jwidness
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In Mammals of Africa, Kingdon describes them as crepuscular, but more nocturnal around areas with human activity, so maybe their activity pattern is pretty flexible? I'm not sure I really buy the crepuscular description though, they have been pretty nocturnal at every site we've seen so far...
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MimiA
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Thanks for sharing Jane!!
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AnLand
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If you want to know more about the differences between the yellow-backed duikers in East Africa (i.e., Restless Star) and West Africa (e.g., Aged Violet or Red Water), @jwidness published yesterday a great blogpost about this here: http://chimpandsee.blogspot.de/2016/10/yellow-backed-duikers.html
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zoogirl1
I watched the video and thought that they were different from the yellow-backs we see since the back end was different. Good to know there are 2 kinds.
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