Springbok pronking

[@erik7131]

It's refreshing to see these gorgeous animals from a different perspective than just acting as prey to predators.

[@עידונווה-ק4ס]

Erik Lol

[@riotbreaker3506]

Ikr, I love deer animals, they're so bizarre and underappreciated.

[@Privatekilllost]

2020

[@nightfury2785]

I was honestly waiting for something to knock it out from the air and eat it 🤣

[@grqv1ty]

@@nightfury2785 dang hell is not just a concept for u

[@dortmunderkelp1704]

I am at the library, with a freaking professional test looming in my mental horizon,but I had to take a few minutes off, come here and mentally pronk with these guys. They got it going on.

[@DixieDraws]

How did it go? I came here during studying for an Ecology Final :)

[@emile-a2394]

How was the test mate?

[@dortmunderkelp1704]

@@emile-a2394 I pronked right through, aced it! Thanks for asking, mate!

[@dortmunderkelp1704]

@@DixieDraws Hi Carolyn, I aced it. Just seeing your message, thanks for checking. How was your Ecology final?

[@DixieDraws]

@@dortmunderkelp1704 That's good to hear!! It went well - thank you!! :D

[@AlexanCarn]

This is how I travel in my dreams.

[@artman40]

In slow motion, I bet.

[@prophecybydefault4708]

same

[@carikabester6310]

Me too jump and fly

[@jamrock4470]

Me too

[@soulstealer1667]

@@carikabester6310 same!

[@lucindabreeding]

I don't know what's more delightful, the floating or the slow-motion ear flappage.

[@ruthiesmith3507]

Ear flappage! I literally laughed out loud when I read that! Yesterday, I tried to pronk, but it did not end well. I am 90lbs but can't move like springbok! So graceful.

[@f0rTyLeGz]

I would surely pronk if I could.

[@dortmunderkelp1704]

Me too, 40legs,me too.

[@AJ_Deadshow]

Especially on grass-sprouty days

[@mmmtacobaguett]

Don't let yout dreams be dreams

[@dortmunderkelp1704]

You can, you know. Just go there in your mind.

[@LionHeart_.]

You do, sometimes in dreams

[@dillonmeredith7529]

I love Sir David Attenborough. He's my favourite presenter of nature programmes

[@dea9273]

I agree!!!

[@thankuslay6766]

*narrator

[@enriquetachias920]

When you drank 4 beers and 2 shots at the club and then that one song comes on you like

[@verycaring2387]

Yaaaaaaaaay!!! Whoo hoooooooo!!! Thats how I feel inside...and when I dance this is EXACTLY HOW I FEEL!!! THRILLED TO BE DANCING ALIVE AND SMILING!!!💜

[@chaoticdusk1316]

This is one of the most hilarious and derpy things I have ever witnessed

[@franchise5527]

nigga said derpy

[@ranjeetasharma4144]

​@@franchise5527Wth

[@Creativeifi]

So beautiful. Nature is a gift. The music is lovely.

[@mrsoshadabaadman]

Springboks. One of the greatest rugby teams in the world. And a magnificent creature.

[@blackopal8611]

Their name suits them perfectly. This video made me smile so much. Why do they jump? Because they can! Showing off their skills!

[@Nadia-tn6yw]

The song gives to the video that special touch

[@dougspidermanhappy]

It’s good! But I’d like to see pronking to a punk song

[@spicytoast6890]

Halo theme

[@AnjaliLuthra]

this made me so happy

[@govindsingathia7619]

Anjali Luthra यु केन डू सेम

[@RJ12347]

The music did the trick

[@milkmamas5503]

TRUE!

[@DrThunder88]

"All pronks living pronkfully within this land of pronk, have the right and pronkful duty to express themselves with pronk, in whichever pronking manner such pronk pronkably pronks pronkfully pronkifies them to pronk."

[@cacatr4495]

DrThunder88 and they cover the greatest amount of ground Pronking it. :)

[@Bigkahkistan]

holy fuck i forgot all about that sketch lmao

[@dantedrowson2511]

I am replacing my use of the F-bomb with the new and much more refined-- "Pronk" bomb now.

[@Danielle_Torres]

That’s awesome i lost my oldest sister past November I would tell her I wanna pronk when I get to Heaven she can laugh at her silly little sister pronkimg with the spring boks! She’ll be with the dear and brats and raccoons and wolves and be following them all day long and I will make them all laugh pronking for joy!

[@robertdeluna9684]

We want the pronk. Gotta have that pronk!!

[@dreadrington5271]

I am here because Jonathan Van Ness said this was his spirit animal. It could not be more perfect. Jonathan Van Springbok.

[@ellyspnz12]

SAME. He’s so knowledgeable and clearly found the perfect animal!

[@thankuslay6766]

Who tf is he?

[@dustinalecxander8647]

@@thankuslay6766 a gay comedian i think

[@tinishamcclellan]

The song is Waltz of the Flowers by Tchaikovsky!

[@benjaminlyczkowski465]

thanks i was trying to find it myself. great composition

[@christiandraper6622]

Thank you!

[@ra3playzgamez-withpuddingp425]

I was looking for this answer! thanks

[@thankuslay6766]

Nobody asked

[@Hulalulatallulahoop2]

Thanks...a beautiful piece of music.

[@mexicanmuslim]

They do that to show any seeing or lurking predators to not waste their energy on them. They are saying look I'm healthy and strong and fast, don't waste your time on me. Thats why they show off like that.

[@nickhowatson4745]

How To Vegan that’s only one of the many theories

[@megamindvs2514]

That’s what I heard too

[@denilsonemmanuel9773]

Lets see how fast when a greyhound zero's in

[@Farahh253]

@@denilsonemmanuel9773 a greyhound will eat dust

[@mrtjdubs3157]

That's me when I get off work.

[@w.m.4077]

Walk out Friday like Full Pronk bro

[@stephenjoiner3738]

You're happy to hear the quitting bell.

[@dxmxo9427]

Lmao

[@MultiKhalled]

MrTJDubs LOl

[@claytonhassam7192]

Hahahahaha

[@Luka23567]

They are so beautiful!

[@ashleyyang2510]

Its 12 am and I have 3 things I need to do but this makes me happy

[@mysticaldumpling246]

this gives me a serotonin boost.

[@EthanMerbaum]

When your homie turns gravity down in your custom matches

[@HarshDude126]

When you give your homie a kiss goodnight.

[@bibiv2066]

I searched so long for this scene and I finally found it thank you so much you don’t know how much you helped me!!🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@cellularjuesus]

My pleasure

[@donnadouglas9729]

They do it because it's fun! I just showed my granddaughter this footage - she's 8 - her face lit up and you could just tell she wished she could do this too, It's fun and all animals play.

[@natashaacg]

Beautiful beyond words

[@elizauksamad304]

Love that background music so beautifully choreographed with elegant, jumps

[@ed1019-h8o]

What a fun and magnificent activity, they must be feeling so much joy! Beautiful, they live such wonderful lives.

[@AnitaDil]

They tend do it more in the morning as a form of strengthening muscles, the young do it a lot when playing also. Obviously it’s a good way of outsmarting predators too.

[@SueLambertPhotography]

We witnessed this in Namibia - oh so very wonderful but our own video doesn't do it justice - THIS one does! Just wish I could download your version to my own PC

[@lizj5740]

Thank you so much for this video of springbok pronking. I'm reading The Plains of Camdeboo by Eve Palmer, and she mentions this behaviour plus the "fan" the sprinkbok can raise. I think I've felt like pronking on occasion but I would never achieve those long floating leaps. ;-) Cheers from Liz and Ginger (pic left) in Australia.

[@inman8696]

Looks fun "screw gravity" *floats*

[@mycatsweetheart]

It's Waltz Of The Flowers by Tchaikovsky.

[@b.hagedash7973]

Thanks so much Lisa, a year or two back I went through my entire classical collection trying to find it, without success.

[@Arseniocruz]

Lisa K thank you so much. That's what I was looking for

[@HealthyandLovingLife]

Pronk is my new favorite word...it's fun to say

[@Olissipona]

aww so graceful!

[@cacatr4495]

WHY they do it? Not only are they designed to do it, enjoyable and fun, but we can plainly see how much energy it saves as it allows them to cover the most ground with the least amount of energy in the greatest of ease. One easy spring propels them a very great distance!

[@MelodieOctavia]

It signals to would-be predator that they are small, fast, and agile. As such, would absolutely not be an ideal mark. Too much effort for a small meal.

[@GelusYT]

Actually they do it to style on predators

[@lou143lou]

Exactly what Dan d Mann said... I'm reading Richard Dawkins (the selfish Gene) and he explains it thoroughly.

[@nickhowatson4745]

Actually we don’t know for sure why. We have theories but don’t actually know.

[@lylastuart-alban739]

this is my spirit animal

[@EdgarRoss1]

2:18 I like the gemsbok in the background like “What are these people doing?”

[@deinemuddr1234]

I love animals like this!

[@kevinpotter2389]

Me too

[@johndoe-uz2kc]

Alteori sent me here. I'm not unhappy about it.

[@DaRkStAr317]

Same

[@tpxt-rexpredatorxenomorph9200]

SAME

[@dworkenlaw1]

PERFECT soundtrack and perfect narrator for perfectly delightful animals!!

[@rikyviky2291]

Thank you very cute I love them very nice beautiful

[@wladdarkness]

Gorgeous creatures ❤️

[@scottw6704]

Waltz of the Flowers...perfect!

[@stephenjoiner3738]

Charles Darwin hung out mostly in South America, but what if he had travelled through eastern and southern Africa with Stanley and saw this? Would he have said this was evolution or intelligent design or ungulate variety? They're not like impalas or gazelles. Beautiful.

[@mlps11]

This needs more views, pronto

[@THANKGODJC]

Don't you mean....PRONKO

[@franesba]

Amazing. Wonderful.

[@christh3cat]

Springboks when we win the World Cup this weekend.

[@dzt7766]

Chris Thompson you called it

[@crookeddub]

4 years later and they did it again

[@mitchgrimes9600]

This made me feel things

[@mitchgrimes9600]

me too

[@barkybarkbarkbark]

My companion goats, Agnes and Bernadette, would pronk to celebrate the springtime!

[@agnesgriego2281]

😂😂

[@udegbebrothers6006]

A fleeing springbok may leap vertically in an active way called pronking confusing predators and giving the springbok better view.

[@fraiser3330]

I can’t stop laughing at these guys the way they jump lmao lmao 😂

[@ing_frantisek_mohykan]

?

[@capnchickenwings]

incredible

[@NekoInk13]

This makes me very happy!

[@finaldelaguerraambiental.8451]

SU ALEGRÍA ES TAN CONTAGIOSA , DIOS BENDIGA ÁFRICA .

[@elizabethbartholomew8394]

This is the content I needed today. Thank you!

[@Tom-yt6nw]

c’est magnifique n’empêche les bons ahh j’adore vive la nature

[@gaamangwebagorogi800]

I love the pronking...

[@yolandajohnson8685]

very enjoyable to watch.

[@kenkioqqo]

The world's best ballet dancers 😅 So majestic.

[@quintessenceofdust]

this gives me so much joy

[@aidengreen4467]

Ahhh YASHUA is soooooo good to us!!!!! How can you not realize that GOD created all!!!! 😁 when you see these beauties dancing for him!! -El

[@aronbrackman4576]

JUST BEAUTIFUL.

[@bonyoni]

Wonderfull show !!!

[@kemunto_]

0:55 the serotonin pumping through my veins right now oooohhhhmyyyygooooooooooooddddd so fucking beautiful wow gazelles wowwwwww

[@hybris159]

Beautiful !!!!

[@lukemaunder4839]

That was amazing. Couldn’t hear the music though.

[@kiranyadav6104]

wow... springbok makes me happy.

[@Helgardt6189]

No wonder our national rugby team is called the Springboks…they fly through the air in a flash.

[@izzybee2705]

Perfect symphony choice

[@manuschwendener]

Still loving this :-)

[@singaboiz]

So effortless.

[@weralasbiru]

its 3 am and ima lookin at boingin springbok ...i think its time to use the bed.

[@dylanberman9080]

Springbok be like: "A'ight, ima head out"

[@satanslittlehelper3]

Kapika is the Zambian name for "Tabitha" which means "Gazelle" in Aramaic

[@rankoutsider2363]

We’re so lucky to live on our unique little planet ❤

[@jhonsepulvedo6750]

There's something fancy about it

[@CasperLCat]

I once asked a girl if she felt like pronking. She punched me in the nose.

[@tar4825]

OMG THEY SO CUTE

[@369mfkzt2]

The reality is beautiful to behold, but painful to be experienced.

[@dougspidermanhappy]

They’re eating fresh green sprouts of grass, right? It’s not my favorite food, but when I eat something really delicious I feel like pronking. Or at least wagging my tail.

[@calebz439]

Pronking Sounds like Fun

[@עידונווה-ק4ס]

They are so funny and cute.

[@grimm6176]

springbok translates (from afrikaans) to "jumping buck" in english 😂 it's no wonder

[@sabelonkosingithandile5658]

That Marvelous !!

[@tatemason471]

The human equivalent of skipping right here

[@Andyilmatto]

Such grace.

[@vijayvs1885]

Wow beautiful to see

[@Ihaveno_ideangl]

A sweet way to get around town

[@bepassionate3247]

Thank you for uploading a wonderful video.

[@Jay_Flippen]

2:33 I've seen juvenile eastern grey squirrels exhibiting a similar useless jumping behavior on multiple occasions.

[@dantedrowson2511]

This feels like Im watching Bambi.. "Look--the meadowwww!"

[@lfeco]

Looking good Billy Ray.......feeling good Lewis!

[@im-that-guy-pal]

Lions thinking to themselves... dinner and a show 😋

[@jadanplaisir9310]

Springbok is a cool update

[@792bnz]

Pronking is to springbok as skipping is to humans

[@michaelhamilton8291]

this is from the show Africa 😄

[@Mr_Valentin.]

Now that's what I call pronking .

[@ILov3Mus1cT00Much]

Dont forget about that chonky gemsbok

[@lilyweatherwaxHRH]

Like a whole herd of Olympic athletes :)