@thinkbiggertv: Have you ever seen a gazelle launch itself straight up into the air when a cheetah or African wild dog appears? This vertical jumping behavior is called stotting, or pronking, and it seems like a terrible survival strategy. Why would a prey animal waste energy and make itself more visible instead of running away immediately? This Think Bigger short breaks down the science of stotting and explains how jumping actually saves Thomson's gazelles from becoming a predator's next meal. We examine the 1986 behavioral study by zoologist Tim Caro, which tested 11 different hypotheses for why gazelles stot. While it initially looked like the gazelle was simply signaling "I see you" to stealth predators like cheetahs, researchers Clare FitzGibbon and John Fanshawe later uncovered the full picture by observing African wild dogs. Stotting acts as an honest signal of fitness. #AnimalBehavior #ScienceFacts #ThinkBigger #ScienceShorts #LearnOnTikTok

》『貓✯弄臣』《 :

“How can you tell he’s a zoologist?” Just a feeling

rm :

aura farming in the face of death

TeixeiraTwin :

So they are larping stamina

Yellow_rants :

so it's basically saying "trust me I'm not worth the effort"

literally_django :

“I can do this all day”

The wind :

It's emoting

matthew parry :

so they roll an athletics check and if they fail they're dinner?

Robo :

all that talk and not a single clip of a gazelle actually doing it 😭 come on bro

Vacation_Breakfast :

“Flexin don’t gotta make sense”

Andrew Smith :

This is poorly written and hard to follow

Eli :

So it’s basically an indicator that I’m very fit. so fit In fact, I can afford to waste a bunch of energy that could be used to escape you as a flex and chasing me is gonna be a huge waste of energy for you.

Except Buses :

I’m stotting my pront rn

user6099017849810 :

So basically what the gazelle did to Diego here while making fun of him

Dave Partner :

Humans do that too

Ray🏀✝️🇦🇺 :

I genuinely realised this 5 seconds into the vid

Gabes :

rugby players it's a cheeky goosie

fingolfins7thstrike :

“I am not the one today.”

PixelParticle VT :

maybe the dogs think the jump means there is a cheeta lol

Lancevisible :

don't chase me. I'm fast as fuck boi

Malk :

It’s showing off their energy, making predators back off because that Gazelle will be able to run much further than ones that don’t jump. You’re welcome

мэриета :

they start flexing in the predator to escape 😭😭😭

sooner or later :

Hey look at me i can jump all day it would really suck if anyone chased me as i can run all day no problem

Tusk :

So they’re basically saying “you’re not gonna catch me choose someone else” badass😭

Rosmarinus :

😃 :

wow I did not expect the jump to look like that