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Friday pudublogging: insecure dik-dik edition

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Wednesday, 13 September 2006

CuteOverload is suddenly celebrating the dik-dik, which probably makes the poor confused thing feel popular enough to go out in public again:

The dik-dik, supermodel of the animal kingdom

The dik-dik, supermodel of the animal kingdom

Dik-diks, as you can see, are the supermodel of the tiny ungulate world, always looking in mirrors to make sure their eyes are still huge and their necks are properly slender, and never really listening to anything the pudus (or anyone else) are saying, and then they wonder at the end of the night why they're the hottest girl in the room and yet none of the guys want to talk to them. Poor things.

Pudus usually wind up driving them home, rolling their eyes, wondering how to get the smell of liquor out of the car, and insisting to themselves that this is the last time.

Which of course it isn't.

Incidentally, here are some wild dik-diks my friend Chris photographed in Kenya last year:

Dik diks gone wild!