Antidorcas marsupialis
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Tsau ǁKhaeb (Sperrgebiet) National Park, 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.
A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 1 square of 10 km carry records for Springbok in and around Tsau ǁKhaeb (Sperrgebiet) National Park, and the 1 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 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.
Lambs lie hidden alone in the open; a lamb without its mother is normal, not abandoned. Never approach one.