Basic behavior:


- Thomson's gazelles are grazers which prefer short green grassland habitats, but will also move towards lightly wooded areas or long grassland areas to look for water or to avoid large aggregations of Blue wildebeests and Plains zebras. These gazelles are particularly water-independent, even during the dry season. In the mornings, Thomson's gazelle rest, having their rumps facing the sun, adopting a sunbathing behavior then they proceed during the rest of the day to feed, travel, and rest. At night, they have two activity peeks one being at the start of night time the other being at the end.

- Thomson's gazelles have a very open, semi-nomadic, leaderless, and fluid social structure; individuals in herds come in go without forming deep connections with the previous herd mates. They adopt three main herd structures:

1. Large aggregations of these gazelles usually happen during migration periods, where large female herds and their young are in the center of good pasture areas while territorial males settle temporary territories having bachelor males on the outskirts of these set territories. Mixed herds of females, young and adult nonterritorial males can also happen to replace female herds. (To be considered an aggregation the herd must exceed 20 individuals)

2. Bachelor herds of Thomson's gazelle, represent immature individuals that contest larger mature males for the right to breed, however outside of the breeding season and migration periods large territorial males join these herds. In these herds males will spar with each other to determine who is the most dominant, these help the young bucks to get prepared for adult life as a territorial buck.

3. Female herds consist of females and their immature fawns, these herds outside of breeding seasons and migration periods can sometimes mix with bachelor herds or nonterritorial males.

- Calving season for these antelopes occurs during both the start of the wet season and dry season. The rut for this species generally occurs two weeks after most fawns are born, when the females turn into estrus.

- When a predator is spotted Thomson's gazelles, stare at the threat and sometimes follow the threat for few miles to make sure it doesn't try to sneak past them when they have their backs turned. When taken by surprise, however, Thomson's gazelle run away as fast as they can, and if the chase is failed the Gazelle will react the exact same way as mentioned above. Predators such as jackals, caracals, servals, and even eagles also represent a threat, but because of their small size, Thomson's gazelle can stand their ground against those if they choose to hunt them or come near their personal space. To show their physical fitness to a predator to discourage it to target them, Thomson's gazelle stot while being chased.

- Thomson's gazelles are very tolerant of other animal species, such as zebras, wildebeests, ostriches, warthogs ... etc. If a gazelle has it's personal space invaded by something bigger than it is, it will trot away, but if it's smaller it will not hesitate to mock charge or charge at it to remove it from its space.