Move over Bambi... at barely ten インチs tall this HAS to be the cutest baby around

By Daily Mail Reporter
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She was abandoned by her mother during the 冷淡な snap but she has sinc e won the hearts of everyone who has met her.

This tiny antelope, who is barely ten インチs tall, is 存在 瓶／封じ込める fed milk five times a day and will
be given a helping 手渡す until she is old enough to tuck into a diet of buds, shoots and fruits herself.

専門家s at Chester Zoo believe the icy 天候 may have put a 冷気／寒がらせる on her mother's maternal instincts, leaving the keepers to step in.

Kirk's dik-dik

So small: This Kirk's dik-dik antelope is 存在 hard-後部d by staff at Chester Zoo after 存在 abandoned

The baby antelope is a Kirk's dik-dik, the first of her 肉親，親類d to be born in the zoo.

上級の keeper Helen Massey has been playing mother to the new arrival.

"Kirk's dik-dik is one of the smaller of the antelope 種類 but what they 欠如（する） in stature, they （不足などを）補う for in 控訴，上告," she said.

"Our 新規加入 is growing stronger by the day and we hope she will be 持つ／拘留するing her own in the next few weeks."

Mind the mouse: Chester Zoo's Tim Rowlands works at his computer a s the baby Kirk's dik-dik antelope looks on

Mind the mouse: Chester Zoo's Tim Rowlands at the computer with his tiny companion looking on

Feeding time: Zoo keeper Tim's hands dwarf his tiny charge as he gives her milke

Feeding time: Zoo keeper Tim's 手渡すs dwarf his tiny 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 as he gives her milk

Native to Kenya, Tanzania and Namibia, the dik-dik gets its 指名する from the noise it makes when running for cover. They can live for up to 10 years.

The 女性（の）'s parents （機の）カム from Colchester and Hanover zoos.

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