Blue Duiker

Super small "deer". 30cm high, 4kg light

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Species: Philantomba monticola (blue Duiker; Blauducker) [also Cephalophus monticola]

Location: Zoo Krefeld

Status: Least concern

Distribution: central, eastern and southern Africa.

Not much is know about this animal!

Wide range of forested and wooded habitats; gallery forests, dry forest patches, coastal scrub farmland. They can persist in small patches of modified or degraded forest and thicket, even on the edge of urban centres.

owever, it withstands hunting pressure better than most of the larger duikers. Furthermore, unlike many of the other forest duikers, Blue Duikers tolerate and even thrive in a range of human-modified habitats, even in the vicinity of settlement, and often persist well in small habitat patches.

The Blue Duiker should continue to survive in large numbers and provide an important source of protein to human populations in the Central African forest zone, as long as human population densities remain low to moderate over extensive parts of its range.