stotting
pronking
pronging

A number of possible explanations have been proposed for stotting.

At least 11 hypotheses for stotting have been proposed.

Springboks use a behavior known as stotting to confuse predators.

'Stotting' has a certain ring to it for the waterfall-collection game.

A classic example is that of stotting in gazelles.

Stotting is so specialized that only 100% genetically pure mule deer seem able to do it.

Although capable of running, mule deer are often seen stotting (also called pronking), with all four feet coming down together.

Stotting is also used by biologists to describe the jumping behaviour of antelopes in response to predators.

Stotting, for instance, is a sort of hopping that certain gazelles do when they sight a predator.

Stotting occurs in domesticated livestock such as sheep, but is typically performed only by young animals.

Stotting makes a prey animal more visible and uses up energy and time that could be spent escaping.

Stotting is jumping into the air with the legs straight and stiff, and the white rear fully visible.

If threatened, they gallop away, bounding stiff-legged into the air every few strides; a behaviour known as stotting.

Stotting mule deer attain considerable horizontal velocity which may be conserved between strides.

Stotting, an animal behaviour.

The alarm stotting was wildly infectious, and across the plain hundreds of springbok bounced on high, with white manes flashing.

Stotting may be:

Uses in this sense include stotting a ball off a wall, and rain stotting off a pavement.

Deer can gallop when alarmed, but they are better known for stotting, a somewhat comical form of hopping, kangaroo-like, on all fours.

It includes the curious stotting of gazelles, whereby one will jump into the air to warn the troop of an approaching predator.

There is nothing funny about the survival advantage of stotting; it enables mulies to see over tall brush and to go over, rather than around, obstacles.

First, for the small amount of energy invested in the stotting, the gazelle might not have to expend the tremendous energy required to evade the lion.

A noticeable behaviour of Thomson's gazelles is their bounding leap, known as stotting or pronking, used to startle predators and display strength.

As Centaine watched, the nearest antelopes took fright at the human presence, and began stotting, the characteristic alarm behaviour that gave them their name of springbok.

Gazelle Stotting: The Darwinian Puzzle also manifests in the behavior of gazelles when they stott.

The male is noted for its "pronking" - leaping into the air so that all four feet are off the ground.

When alarmed Fallow will sometimes move off in a distinctive manner known as pronking.

Although capable of running, mule deer are often seen stotting (also called pronking), with all four feet coming down together.

Always on the alert, damas use a behavior called pronking to warn herd members of danger.

Your environment includes some pretty harsh realities, far divorced from pronking gazelles, or the tracery of veins on a leaf.

While pronking, the springbok repeatedly leaps into the air in a particular stiff-legged posture, with its back bowed and the white fan lifted.

Suddenly the nearest gazelles took fright at their presence and began the peculiar alarm display that the Boers called pronking'.

Towards Pronking with a Hexapod Robot.

A noticeable behaviour of Thomson's gazelles is their bounding leap, known as stotting or pronking, used to startle predators and display strength.

Pronking involves the animal hopping up and down with all four of their legs stiff, so their limbs all leave and touch the ground at the same time.

Pronking comes from the Afrikaans verb pronk-, which means "show off" or "strut", and is a cognate of the English verb "prance".

The most accepted theory for pronking is that it is a method to raise alarm against a potential predator or confuse it, or to get a better view of a concealed predator.

No tail-twisting is necessary - no iron pronging is necessary.

Pronging, the gait of quadrupeds involving jumping high into the air (Stotting)