AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Stotting (also called pronking or pronging) is a behavior of quadrupeds, particularly gazelles, in which they spring into the air, lifting all four feet off the ground simultaneously. Usually, the legs are held in a relatively stiff position.

Detailed explanation-2: -Stotting, also called pronking, involves gazelles repeatedly jumping up into the air with all four legs held stiff and backs arched. They tend to stot before running away when they see an approaching predator, like the aforementioned speedy cheetah.

Detailed explanation-3: -In this instance, many gazelles will stott at the same time, and as Clare Fitzgibbon and John Fanshawe, scientists at Cambridge University in England, have found, stotting in response to wild dogs does signal the gazelles’ ability to outrun the predator in a long and demanding race.

Detailed explanation-4: -The incidence and context of stotting were studied in Thomson’s gazelles.

Detailed explanation-5: -Stotting, also known as pronking, is a gait used by gazelles where they jump high in the air with all feet off the ground. Pronking is used to describe this behaviour in Springbok of southern Africa and comes from the Afrikaans word ‘pronk’ which means to strut or show off.