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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that klipspringers form pair bonds that may last for life?

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Additional Information[edit]

I added some information, including that females in some klipspringer populations have horns, klipspringers are able to stand on a cliff piece the size of a Canadian dollar coin, and the fact that they mate for life, as well as the "lookout" duty they perform. I added my reference to the bottom (http://www.wildinfo.com/facts/Klipspringer.asp?page=/facts/Klipspringer.asp). There are other sources with this same information if this source alone is not sufficient. I have only made one minor addition and some small edits to a Wiki article before, so if someone needs to better format my citation, please do. ~Elana 24.13.177.119 (talk) 23:08, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Jumping height[edit]

No animal of any kind jumps higher than 2.5 m because of limitations of physiology (it is a scaling law frequentyl discussed in textbooks), why should the klipspringer achieve 8 m? That is surely wrong. And indeed, there is no reference for this claim anywhere in the internet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.91.155.141 (talk) 09:06, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the sentence: "The Klipspringer is known for its remarkable jumping ability and is able to leap to staggering heights of 25 feet, which is about 15 times its own height." Zaian (talk) 11:47, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tree kangaroos can easily jump over 2.5m, and I know that buffalo can jump 2m. People can jump 2.3m, so I doubt that 2.5m is a hard and fast law. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.57.43.223 (talk) 23:11, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps the user meant 2.5 times the animal's own height rather than 2.5 m. At any rate, I doubt you'll get a response from an anonymous user who posted two years ago. -- Fyrael (talk) 23:20, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled[edit]

As the name of this article is in Afrikaans, I changed the spelling of kopjes to the Afrikaans koppies. User:Magicmike 8 April 2004.

I have a sharp photo of a Klipspringer, so I'm replacing the drawing in the taxobox with it. The previous one is: Image:Klippspringer-drawing.jpg. Munificent 13:15, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

re: this: "They have such small feet that all four of its hooves can fit on an American dime at one time." -- this seems highly unlikely, given the size of a U.S. dime (less than one inch in diameter). Is this verified? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.147.222.166 (talk) 21:04, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have difficulty believing it's that small. I've deleted it as probably vandalism... unless someone really does have a cite. Anaxial (talk) 21:59, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ripley's Believe it or Not 2001 special edition has that phrase on page 59. 75.62.124.115 (talk) 02:06, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Threats[edit]

The article mentions threats posed by humans, but it does not list any predators present in the species' natural habitat. (I refuse to believe that there are none, not for something so small and cute.) 68.111.138.230 (talk) 18:43, 8 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]