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Stotting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stotting and https://www.alamy.com/thomsons-gazelle-stotting-image259629646.html?imageid=EFAABF8B-00A1-4CBA-8D68-53A855AA9A22&p=42009&pn=1&searchId=036528663ee909d61b9916f3d5b00c5a&searchtype=0 and https://www.alamy.com/a-black-tailed-deer-stotting-across-a-winter-field-image235857060.html?imageid=B54ABE6D-1D1C-4675-A5D1-E7BBB47B563D&p=92827&pn=1&searchId=036528663ee909d61b9916f3d5b00c5a&searchtype=0 and https://www.mindenpictures.com/stock-photo/fallow-deer-(dama-dama)-doe-stotting-suffolk-england/search/detailmodal-0_80094346.html and https://www.mindenpictures.com/stock-photo/red-deer-(cervus-elaphus)-calf-stotting-minsmere-rspb-reserve-suffolk/search/detailmodal-0_80094369.html) is known to occur in the genus Damaliscus (Estes 1991).
However, this behaviour has seldom been photographed in this genus.
The reasons probably include the following:
In this Post, I exclude style-trotting, which has been photographed in Damaliscus jimela.
Damaliscus lunatus lunatus:
The following shows stotting in an adult individual of Damaliscus lunatus lunatus. I know of no other photo of stotting in the tsessebe; and even in this photo the behaviour is not acknowledged.
The following also possibly shows stotting.
Damaliscus jimela:
The following show stotting in juveniles of the topi.
The following possibly shows stotting.
Damaliscus pygargus pygargus:
In the bontebok, stotting seems to have been recorded only in zoos, and only in play between infant and mother.
https://www.oregonzoo.org/node/7361/media
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1029640830966480
https://ktvl.com/newsletter-daily/bontebok-antelope-calf-tutula-makes-debut-at-oregon-zoo
Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi:
In the blesbok, stotting seems to have been recorded even less frequently than in the bontebok. I suspect this is partly because the blesbok is extremely sparing with its metabolic energy during the dry, cool season (https://www.jstor.org/stable/2404031).
https://www.shutterstock.com/it/image-photo/blesbuck-jumping-this-black-white-photo-307957736
last few seconds of https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/item/65434541-springbok-impala-wildebeest-and-blesbok
For an index to my many Posts about the genus Damaliscus, please see https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/milewski/78238-an-index-to-my-posts-on-genus-damaliscus#.
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