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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

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

When, however, in the morning or during the afternoon hours, from above he espied, through the field-glass, herds of zebras, hartbeests, ariels, or springboks grazing in the jungle, he took Kali with him.

From In Desert and Wilderness by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

The springboks, when alarmed, take to flight and scatter off in any direction, whereas the bonteboks and blesboks invariably run against the wind, bearing their noses close along the ground, like hounds upon a trail!

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne