Springbok

Description:

Bright cinnamon-brown upperparts, bright white underparts, with a chocolate brown stripe along the flanks. White on the face and muzzle, with a red-brown stripe running through the eyes to the corner of the mouth. The rum is white, the tail is thin, white near the base with a tuft of dark hair at the tip.(Smithers' mammals of southern africa a field guide. fourth edition)

Habitat:

Arid and semi-arid desert scrub and grassland.

Notes:

I saw plenty of springboks in Namibia, but they are shy and jump a lot, so I wasn't able to take many photographs of them. These roamed in the lodges park, I think they had been injured as none had the normal lyre horns