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duiker

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1. any small antelope of the genera Cephalophus and Sylvicapra, occurring throughout Africa south of the Sahara, having short straight backward-pointing horns, pointed hooves, and an arched back
2. South African any of several cormorants, esp the long-tailed shag (Phalacrocorax africanus)
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Duiker's arrival looked like just what the doctor ordered, but he was shown the exit door by the team's management, citing lack of funds and that was a defining moment for Chiefs, as they only managed to collect four points from a possible 33 since Duiker's departure.
I could detail each species and try to figure out how it got on this list, but let me take just one--the Jentink's duiker. Population numbers for this small forest antelope are 2,000-2,500, and there is a downward trend caused by habitat destruction and poaching for bush meat.
Jean-Luc and his team had thousands of photos of all manner of wildlife: gorillas, elephants, chimpanzees, duikers, sitatunga, and lots of bongo.
My .33 went to Africa with me in 1985 but was just used on one small critter called a gray duiker.
Illegal hunting and habitat loss also pushed three species of antelope found in Africa to "near threatened" status, including the bay duiker, the white-bellied duiker and the yellow-backed duiker.
Duiker and Spielvogel present readers with the eighth edition of the comprehensive textbook on world history up to the year 1800.
This was because I doubled as the main sports writer under the pen name Kookooase Adowa--a name I adopted in self-mockery, for it meant the "duiker that dwells under the cocoa trees".
Similarly, Duiker's Thirteen Cents and Quiet Violence are replete with some interesting linguistic strategies.
Key witnesses to significant events abound throughout all ten volumes of the Malazan series, including the Imperial historian Duiker who, not unlike a twenty-first-century embedded journalist, witnesses Wickan Crow Clan leader Coltaine's impressive "Chain of Dogs" in Deadhouse Gates (2000); Samar Dev, who is similarly made witness to the bravado and awesome feats of the Toblakai barbarian Karsa Orlong; and the Tano Spiritwalker Kimloc, who immortalizes in song the legendary accomplishments of that other, more infamous Malazan military unit known as the Bridgeburners.
While others were seeking cool shade or the air-conditioned indoors, 17-year-old Corina Duiker packed on about 75 pounds of fire-resistant gear on Thursday and helped battle a wall of fire swirling above cars and piles of wooden pallets at the Eugene Springfield Fire Department headquarters in west Eugene.
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