https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/tags/klipspringer/ Recent content in Klipspringer on The Singemonkey Hugo en-us Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:21:58 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-19-tiny-critters-in-a-big/ Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:21:58 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-19-tiny-critters-in-a-big/ <p>Tiny critters in a big landscape. Almost every pile of boulders (ancient magma chambers exposed by erosion and then crumbled by weather, plants, and time) has a pair of resident klipspringers (rock-hoppers) - an adorable, agile, and feisty little antelope.</p> <p>These plaques on the rocks are the kind of memorialising that used to be de rigueur in the old days. Now such things are usually confined to camps and gates rather than forced onto the landscape.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2021-01-23-klipspringers-look-at-the-little/ Sat, 23 Jan 2021 22:57:45 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2021-01-23-klipspringers-look-at-the-little/ <p>Klipspringers. Look at the little ballet hooflets.</p> <p>Found this as well, while scrolling through Lightroom. I got some great footage of Klipspringers over Christmas. Now I just have to bring myself to face Davinci and edit that stuff. In the meanwhile, here&rsquo;s a pic I took in 2012 at about the same place in the Karoo National Park - Klipspringerpas. These are basically the Southern African equivalent of mountain goats. The name means &lsquo;rockjumper.&rsquo; Those dainty little hooves do great work for leaping about cliffs and boulders.</p>