18-630: [REDACTED] Look up eland in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Eland may refer to: Animals [ edit ] Taurotragus , a genus of antelope Common eland of East and Southern Africa Giant eland of Central and Western Africa Places [ edit ] Eland, Wisconsin , United States An old spelling of Elland , West Yorkshire Eland Mountains , Antarctica Elands River (disambiguation) Elands, New South Wales Businesses [ edit ] Eland Books ,
36-424: A "male goat"—in reference to the tuft of hair that grows in the eland's ear which resembles a goat's beard. The genus consists of two species: [REDACTED] Three subspecies of common eland are recognized, though their validity has been in dispute. [REDACTED] The largest antelope in the world. It has two subspecies: Taurotragus is sometimes considered part of the genus Tragelaphus on
54-624: A 1976 attack by Rhodesian Selous Scouts at Nyadzonya, Mozambique See also [ edit ] Elan (disambiguation) Elaan (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Eland . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eland&oldid=1170368788 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
72-624: A 1976 attack by Rhodesian Selous Scouts at Nyadzonya, Mozambique See also [ edit ] Elan (disambiguation) Elaan (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Eland . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eland&oldid=1170368788 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
90-417: A 2008 phylogenomic study of spiral-horned antelopes, chromosomal similarities were observed between cattle ( Bos taurus ) and eight species of spiral-horned antelopes, namely: nyala ( Tragelaphus angasii ), lesser kudu ( T. imberbis ), bongo ( T. eurycerus ), bushbuck ( T. scriptus ), greater kudu ( T. strepsiceros ), sitatunga ( T. spekei ), giant eland and common eland. It
108-432: A female kudu produced a male offspring, but it was azoospermic . Analysis showed that it completely lacked germ cells , which produce gametes . Still, the hybrid had a strong male scent and exhibited male behaviour. Chromosomal examination showed that chromosomes 1, 3, 5, 9, and 11 differed from the parental karyotypes . Notable mixed inherited traits were pointed ears as the eland's, but a bit widened like kudu's. The tail
126-491: A publishing house Eland Oil & Gas , a Nigeria-focused upstream oil and natural gas exploration and production company E-Land Group , a South Korean conglomerate Technology [ edit ] Eland Mk7 , a South African armoured car Napier Eland , a type of turboshaft Other uses [ edit ] Eland (surname) Eland House , an office building in Westminster, London Operation Eland ,
144-431: A publishing house Eland Oil & Gas , a Nigeria-focused upstream oil and natural gas exploration and production company E-Land Group , a South Korean conglomerate Technology [ edit ] Eland Mk7 , a South African armoured car Napier Eland , a type of turboshaft Other uses [ edit ] Eland (surname) Eland House , an office building in Westminster, London Operation Eland ,
162-530: Is a genus of large African antelopes , placed under the subfamily Bovinae and family Bovidae . The genus authority is the German zoologist Johann Andreas Wagner , who first mentioned it in the journal Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen in 1855. The name is composed of two Greek words: ταῦρος ( taûros ), meaning a "bull" or "bullock", and τράγος ( trágos ), meaning
180-732: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Animal common name disambiguation pages eland [REDACTED] Look up eland in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Eland may refer to: Animals [ edit ] Taurotragus , a genus of antelope Common eland of East and Southern Africa Giant eland of Central and Western Africa Places [ edit ] Eland, Wisconsin , United States An old spelling of Elland , West Yorkshire Eland Mountains , Antarctica Elands River (disambiguation) Elands, New South Wales Businesses [ edit ] Eland Books ,
198-610: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Animal common name disambiguation pages Taurotragus Taurotragus is a genus of giant antelopes of the African savanna , commonly known as elands . It contains two species: the common eland T. oryx and the giant eland T. derbianus . Giant eland Common eland Greater kudu Mountain nyala Bongo Sitatunga Cape bushbuck Nyala Lesser kudu Taurotragus / t ə ˈ r ɒ t r ə ɡ ə s /
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#1732776142263216-485: The basis of molecular phylogenetics . Together with the bongo , giant eland and common eland are the only antelopes in the tribe Tragelaphini (consisting of Taurotragus and Tragelaphus ) to be given a generic name other than Tragelaphus . Although some authors, like Theodor Haltenorth , regarded the giant eland as conspecific with the common eland, they are generally considered two distinct species. The eland have 31 male chromosomes and 32 female chromosomes. In
234-409: The common eland varies geographically; the eland in southern Africa lack the distinctive markings (torso stripes, markings on legs, dark garters and a spinal crest) present in those from the northern half of the continent. Similarly, the giant eland displays 8 to 12 well-defined vertical white torso stripes. In both species the coat of the males darken with age. According to zoologist Jakob Bro-Jørgensen,
252-434: The females are smaller than males. The two eland species are nearly similar in height, ranging from 130–180 cm (51–71 in). In both species, males typically weigh 400 to 1,000 kg (880 to 2,200 lb) while females weigh 300 to 600 kg (660 to 1,320 lb). The coat of the common eland is tan for females, and darker with a bluish tinge for males. The giant eland is reddish-brown to chestnut. The coat of
270-423: The giant eland. The common eland and giant eland have been estimated to have diverged about 1.6 million years ago. Both the species of eland are large spiral- horned antelopes. Though the giant eland broadly overlaps in size with the common eland, the former is somewhat larger on average than the latter. In fact, the giant eland is the largest species of antelope in the world. Eland are sexually dimorphic , as
288-567: The past during the late Miocene . An extinct ancestor of the common eland ( Taurotragus arkelli ) appears in the Pleistocene in northern Tanzania and the first T. oryx fossil appears in the Holocene in Algeria . Previous genetic studies of African savanna ungulates revealed the presence of a long-standing Pleistocene refugium in eastern and southern Africa, which also includes
306-403: Was found that chromosomes involved in centric fusions in these species used a complete set of cattle painting probes generated by laser microdissection . The study confirmed the presence of the chromosome translocation known as Robertsonian translocation (1;29), a widespread evolutionary marker common to all known tragelaphid species. An accidental mating between a male giant eland and
324-455: Was half the length of that of an eland, with a terminal tuft of hair as in kudu. Female elands can also act as surrogates for bongos . The bovid ancestors of the eland evolved approximately 20 million years ago in Africa ; fossils are found throughout Africa and France but the best record appears in sub-Saharan Africa. The first members of the tribe Tragelaphini appear 6 million years in
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