Photographer Charles Jorgensen: “I was on vacation in an area of South Africa where springbok are quite common, and I had a goal of capturing this behavior, called pronking." Pronking (also: stotting) is an acrobatic display of jumps that signals vigor and strength to predators, who will think twice going after an antilope in such good shape, at least that's the idea.
Just as "springbok" comes from Dutch (Afrikaans) for jumping-male-antilope, "pronking" comes from the same language, meaning boasting.
PRONKING
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