Oryx gazella
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Namib-Naukluft, aggregated onto a 10 km grid. A cell is matched by its centre, which can sit up to 16 km outside the boundary, so this covers the surrounding country too.
Occurrence records measure where people looked and found something, which is not the same as where the animal is. This is a relative likelihood, not a probability.
Records exist for May, July and December, with the widest coverage in July. A quiet month can mean the animal was absent, or that nobody was looking.
A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 19 squares of 10 km carry records for Gemsbok in and around Namib-Naukluft, and the 15 records behind them were collected by other people and published openly. Nothing here counts animals, and a place with more records is not always a place with more animals.
The gemsbok is the desert answering the question of what an antelope should be. Half a meter of straight rapier horn on a 200-kilogram body, painted in gray, black and white like a heraldic shield, it thrives where most mammals die: it can live without drinking for weeks, taking moisture from roots, melons and night-cooled grass, and it survives body temperatures that would cook a human brain by cooling the blood bound for its head through a lattice of nasal vessels. Namibia has tens of thousands of them, and no photograph of a red dune is quite complete without one standing on it. Both sexes carry horns, and lionesses have been killed misjudging them.
In hot months do not hold herds away from water or shade with a parked vehicle; heat is their real predator.