The exceptions are the gemsboks, which move out of the riverbeds into the desert for extended periods. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The livestock have overgrazed the understory plant growth and fallen Acacia seedpods of the riverbed and are competing for food with wild animals, such as gemsboks. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Types and Severity of Threats On an ecoregion scale, many species such as springboks, leopards and gemsboks have not suffered significant range reductions, and the distributions of smaller mammals have changed little during recorded history. ❋ Unknown (2008)
We are inviting the people of our two lands and of the world to visit our shared natural heritage and to get to know at firsthand how the famed Kgalagadi gemsboks, lions and many other species of this wilderness survive in what many would classify as a very harsh environment. ❋ Unknown (2000)
We are inviting the people of our two lands and of the world to visit our shared natural heritage and to get to know at firsthand how the famed Kgalagadi gemsboks, lions and many other species of this wilderness survive in what many would classify as a ver ❋ Unknown (2000)
On my way home I come across Pater-son's after-rider, "jaging" a troop of gemsboks, but fearfully to leeward, his illustrious master being nowhere in sight. ❋ Unknown (1867)
The presence of his favourite prey, -- the quaggas, the gemsboks, and the elands, -- were sure indications that the king of beasts was not far off. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
We saw herds of animals in the distance -- gemsboks, steinboks, gnus, and cameleopards -- but they were too far off to enable me to get a shot at any of them. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
Timbo told us that the gemsboks were generally seen in small herds. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
"I suspect they are waiting for the appearance of a herd of ` gemsboks, 'and that they will not give up the chance of catching their prey," observed my uncle. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
We were hunting African plains game animals called gemsboks. ❋ Unknown (2010)
We saw a lot of game: about 25 lions, 9 cheetah (four essentially in captivity), 26 desert-adapted elephants, 4 venomous snakes, 8 rhino, 500 or so zebras, and about 8 million gemsboks. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Other species found within the ecoregion are Hartmann's mountain zebras (Equus zebra hartmannae EN), kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros LR), springboks (Antidorcas marsupialis LR), gemsboks (Oryx gazella LR), Damara dik-diks (Madoqua kirkii) and black-faced impalas (Aepyceros melampus petersi VU). ❋ Unknown (2008)
"I have heard that the gemsboks 'horns are sometimes fatal to the lion, but I could hardly credit it. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)
1: Your khaki short shorts and [two tone] shirt will help you stalk that Gemsbok [Jacobus].
2: That oak [Willem] is tough hey, he's a real Gemsbok! ❋ BotswanaWill (2021)
