Antidorcas marsupialis
Drawn from open occurrence records inside Namib-Naukluft, aggregated onto a 10 km grid.
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 January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December. A quiet month can mean the animal was absent, or that nobody was looking.
The springbok is southern Africa's confetti: a slight, cinnamon-and-white gazelle, maybe 30 to 45 kilograms, that once migrated in herds so vast they took days to pass a farmhouse. The great treks are gone but the animal remains gloriously common, and it still does the thing that named it: pronking, a stiff-legged vertical bounce with back arched and a white crest of hair flared along the spine, part alarm, part fitness advertisement, possibly part joy. It handles the desert almost as well as a gemsbok, breeding on rain rather than season, and it feeds practically everything with claws or talons in Namibia, which makes a springbok herd the most reliable place to wait for drama.
Herds from dozens to thousands, endlessly nervous, endlessly watching. A ripple of raised heads at one edge of a herd is often your first sign of a predator.
Pronking is burst-mode work: pre-focus on one animal at the herd's edge in the golden hour and hold the shutter when it starts. Backlit dust turns it cinematic.
Lambs lie hidden alone in the open; a lamb without its mother is normal, not abandoned. Never approach one.