A Klipspringer (literally "rock jumper" within Afrikaans), Oreotragus oreotragus, is a little African antelope that lives from either a Cape of Good Hope all the way up East Africa and into Ethiopia.

Reaching just about 58cm (Xxii inches) at a shoulder, Klipspringers come comparatively little fauna in comparison occasionally of their big antelope cousins. Males use at times fragile horns that come unremarkably all about 20-25cm (Four-6 inches) hanker.

Using the heavy & heavy stippled "salt and pepper" patterened coat of an virtually olive shade, Klipspringers blend inside easily using a kopje (rock outcrops) in which it potty unremarkably exist as detected.

Klipspringers come herbivores, eating rock plants. It never require to drink to your hearts content, since a succulents they subsist in provide the two by owning plenty water to survive.

A union year for Klipspringers is from either September across to January. A gestation period is about 214 years.

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