These pools attract a wide variety of water birds and mammals. As their name implies waterbucks usually live near watercourses and will take to water when pursued. Only the males are horned. They are territorial, but waterbuck are unusual in that several adult, subadult and juvenile males may be found mixed with herds of females and young. The territorial bull will tolerate them as long as they behave submissively, approaching him with head and tail extended while licking the air.
Females perform the same submissive display.
A very small antelope, which will be seen either singly or in pairs, is Kirk's dikdik . They weigh about 4 kgs. In color they are drab grey and they have very large, luminous eyes and proboscis-like noses. Only the male is horned. Like the hyrax, they have the habit of depositing their droppings in a selected spot, where large quantities will accumulate.