Eland. |
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| Eland at Cape of Good Hope. Photographed from the road to Cape Point. The road to Cape of Good Hope is just behind the Eland. | ||||||||||
| The
eland
is
the
largest
of
the
African
antelope,
with
adult
males
standing
about
1.7m
at
the
shoulder
and
a
mass
of
approximately
700kg. They are extremely versatile animals and are found in a wide diversity of habitat types, ranging from mountain grassland to arid scrubland. Eland are predominantly browsers and therefore require trees or bushes and although they drink readily when water is available, they are not dependant on it. They use their horns very effectively to break down high branches. |
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| Despite their impressive size, eland are excellent jumpers and clear 2m with apparent ease. They are timid animals and become nervous with the slightest disturbance. They are extremely docile and attempts have been made to domesticate the eland both for meat and for milk, but their potential appears to be not in supplementing cattle but in complementing them in areas suitable to both. | ||||||||||
| Unlike the Bontebok that had been re-introduced into the Cape Point Nature Reserve the Eland are still from the original stock that had always roamed the area. | 
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| Some
of the information on this page from the
Cape Peninsula National Park, Cape of Good Hope brochure. |
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Cape Point Virtual Tour |
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Contact:
info@sunsetbeach.co.za |
Janthina |
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