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Klipspringer
(Latin = Oreotragus oreotragus , Afrikaans = Klipspringer, German = Klipspringer)

Numbers: Fairly high

Weight > 9 - 16 kg

29 - 35 lb

Shoulder height> 60 cm

24 in.

Record Horn Length:

SCI > 5 and seven eights in.

Rowland Ward > 6 and a quater in.

Females horns? No

Found in a part of the western midland of the Northern Cape, the West Coast and the Garden Route area of Western and Eastern Cape, as well as all along the Maluti and Drakensberg areas of Lesotho, Natal, Swaziland, the Escarpment and Lowveld areas of Mpumalanga and all the warmer areas (the north part) of the Northern and North West Province.

This little fellow is the dancer of the rocks, jumping up and down steep slopes of dangerous mountain rock as if it is a sprinters lane. Their hoves was created in a cup-like manner and, depending on the rocks they climb, they vary their “grip-angle” and weight distribution to secure maximum tred each step of their slippery climbs. Even a fall just isn’t the same to them as to most other creatures: they have a extra thick coat which can, to some degree, break their fall in case of miscalculation. This most surely is also a welcome saveguarding tool when a dangerous leopard, eagle or rooikat ends up with mouth full of floppy grey hair instead of the real thing. They does give themselves to be seen sometimes : standing as if in a fresco high up in the safety of the rocky terrain nody else can handle just the way they do, changing the skyline with the silhoutte of their proud little figures. It’s save to say that they aren’t much interested in another environment than the hills and rocks they like to hop. They often are seen in pairs, sometimes up to three or four, and, when in danger, warn each other

with a whistle-like snort.