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Why: In "America's Next Top Animal Graphic Trend" on Hello Giggles:
Dik DikAnswer: Well, I'm not sure that's entirely true. These guys appear to be knocking skulls:
If Lady GaGa were to design a baby deer, I’m pretty sure it would look like this. Extra dainty legs, ant-eater nose, teacup stature. My favorite thing about dik diks is that they almost never fight. But when they must, dik diks just run towards each other only to stop short and aggressively shake their heads until somebody gives up. Is this not the animal kingdom’s two snaps up?? Diva!
I saw some dik diks in Kenya in 2000, and o my god, they were precious.
Source: YouTube
The More You Know: I also found a bunch of videos from a Japanese guy who owns several fennec foxes and also a cat, of course. Maybe I want to name a child Fennec.
Fun fact: The fox in The Little Prince was hot probs a fennec fox.
The French aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry made a reference, in a letter written to his sister Didi from Cape Juby in 1918, to his raising a fennec that he adored. Saint-Exupéry also mentioned encountering a fennec when wandering in Sahara when his plane crashed there in 1935. The fennecs he had known in these two contexts are considered to have inspired the fox character in Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince.
The fennec looks as if it is trying to make its bed and the cat is being an aggravation.
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