This week’s wee beastie is a reader contribution from a while back — a dik-dik, the supermodel of the tiny ungulate world:

Dik-diks usually look like this during summer picnics, just before the 3-legged dik-dik race.

But dik-diks wouldn’t dream of tying one of their legs to another dik-dik. It would ruin the line of their look. So instead they just sort of pull their back legs together and mince around. When one of the pudus barks "Go," the dik-diks all speed-mince toward the finish line.

The winner isn’t the one who comes first. The winner is the one who goes home with the really cute gerenuk afterward.

Then the other dik-diks gossip about how the gerenuk secretly drinks, and he can’t hold a job.