@Kamazeustra  
Character Development

@TheFriendlyElephant  
Its called Character Development ^^

@TheFriendlyElephant  
That makes sense.

@Kamazeustra  
I’m not sure why I didn’t mention this sooner, it might clear things up for why Sabe is as you describe.
 
You see, Sabe is an inexperienced male. He has indeed protected his friends of other species back by his rock, (sometimes with the aid of a large Pachyderm friend) but other than that, has no experience going up against another challenging male of his own species, or looking after his own harem. He has yet to tell Uganda this.  
He did not say anything about it from the start because of his own insecurities while at the same time feeling bad for Uganda herself after she explained more about why she wanted him to come back with her.
 
This is a major plot point to the full story I have planned out, and will dynamically affect it in future pages and chapters. This is the reason why you see him get annoyed easily, trip so often, or get caught off guard.  
He has yet to learn and mature to his fullest extent, and this journey he’s going through with Uganda is a learning experience in itself for him.

@TheFriendlyElephant  
Yes, but that isn’t an excuse for him. He’s meant to replace some failure of a leader who can’t protect the herd. So far he’s managed to get ambushed twice by one herd of springboks in a completely open field and fail to run two times in probably as many minutes. He’s an antelope who can’t navigate a savanna when the pressure’s on and when it’s off and he has no situational awareness.
 
It doesn’t matter that he doesn’t mean to be inept. All he’s shown is that either he’d be taken completely unaware by a lion, or he’d offer himself up as a sacrifice when he fails at moving.

@Kamazeustra  
But Sabe never intended to get knocked out in the first place, it just happened on accident.  
Ugnada never intended to face against a rhino. It just escalated to what it was by misunderstanding.  
Neither knew of each others situation or realized that it would happen until it was too late.

Rhino stops, and laughs himself silly.
 
Our hero wins, but with a bruised ego.

@TheFriendlyElephant  
Yes I did. And I never said he abandoned her on purpose, I said he left her facing down a rhino alone while he took himself out.

@Kamazeustra  
Did you at least read the response I gave you after the assessment you typed?

Sabe continues to support my assessment from >>1536460. And Uganda actually saw it this time.