Pronking Springbok<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIf you are like me and want to watch these graceful antelope in action then I suggest you start planning a trip to Southwestern Africa.\u00a0 They can be found through the northwestern portion of South Africa and extending through the Kalahari desert into Namibia and Botswana.<\/p>\n
Springbok Fast Fact – <\/strong>If their pronking trick doesn’t work to get rid of a predator they will resort to the old fashion technique of running. Usually they will simply extend their necks, put their ears and horns back and start motoring out of danger at speeds of up to 80 km\/hr (50 mph).\u00a0 Personally, I would probably just start with the running instead of messing around with the whole pronking thing but to each their own.<\/p>\nWell I guess I will pronk on out of here.\u00a0 Enjoy the rest of your day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I tried warning you awhile back that you will be seeing more and more African animals as I get more and more excited for my trip to South Africa later this year. I found out the other day that the Springbok is the National animal of South Africa so you knew it was going to find its way to Wild Facts at some point (although I did have to be reminded about it today).\u00a0 As you can tell from the picture the Springbok is a type of antelope. In fact in Afrikaans or Dutch “Spring” means Jump while “Bok” means <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,4024],"tags":[348,795,973,972,4025,971,970,974],"yoast_head":"\n
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