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They afford an opportunity for people from all backgrounds to encounter a range of animals, from drone bees to springbok or salmon, to better understand the natural world we live in.
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2021
That’s what has brought them to Sossusvlei, Namibia, an otherworldly place where giant dunes rise over a wide salt plain dotted with groups of springbok, oryx and ostriches.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2014
Watched a cheetah hunt down and catch a springbok this morning..
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2011
Who would win in a fight between a lion and a springbok?
From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2010
I left Mrs. Hauser sitting in her silky purple cloud under the springbok so that she didn’t have to battle her arthritis just to walk me to the door.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
Cleary Gottlieb bought legal-tech firm Springbok AI, bringing a team of AI engineers in-house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Almost immediately the home side surged into a crucial 28-18 lead when Springbok scrum-half Grant Williams sprinted over.
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2025
This almost felt like a South Africa home game with the volume of Springbok support as Wales suffered an 11th international defeat in 12 matches in Cardiff.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
South Africa hooker Malcolm Marx was named World Rugby player of the year on Saturday, crowning an impressive season from the Springbok.
From Barron's ● Nov. 22, 2025
Springbok, duiker, and waterbuck hid in the shadows of musasas.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Witek finds giraffes, rhinos, hippos, baboons, one nasty-looking crocodile, wart hogs, kudus, wildebeest, mongooses, zebras, springboks, impalas but only a trace of lions — a half-eaten elephant carcass alongside a pond.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2010
All the springboks playing baseball, the pandas who controlled the big wooden slides, even the nerdy pangolins who played D&D in the shade of the library.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
Of course, the resemblance to the “trek-boken” of their own springboks, which all of them had witnessed, was also remembered.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne
They are fleeter than springboks, and also more shy and wary, as though they knew that their spoils are more valuable to the hunter, and therefore required greater skill and speed to preserve them.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne
The others left off browsing, and several of them were seen to bound up into the air—after the very singular manner of springboks.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne
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