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#83 - Dik-Diks by Robert Bateman

Dik-Diks painted by Canadian Artist and Naturalist Robert Bateman, is an acrylic painting from 1975 that shares insight into local legend about one of the world's smallest hoofed mammals!! ""I have always been attracted to intimate scenes - a few square yards of seemingly ordinary field, forest floor or scrubland, which are filled with variety and complexity if you look carefully. The dik-diks are small, the smallest of African antelopes, only about twelve inches high. You can see the scale of the painting by the relative size of the elephant dung, a typical feature of dik-dik habitat, as are the different grasses and bushes and the volcanic rock. The dik-diks are attractive animals to look at and to paint. They resemble tremendously condensed high-strung racehorses. Every muscle shows, and their anatomy and bone structure seem very tight and interlocked. They are exceptionally nervous and you usually see them either in a freeze position or else springing out of sight."- Robert Bateman