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Come to the Eastern Cape or go to Vaalbos, almost guarenteed sightings.

The Eland I mentioned in chit-chat that swam home, actually swam for 2km to get back to Postberg awesome, and they apparently looked quite comfy in the water. Turns out there are too many eland in Postberg and it was either cull or relocate. They were relocated and I think it was about seven that swam home. It has been decided to leave them be for now

We so often focus on the "big five" that the attributes of other animals are missed.
What an amazing achievement

Here is Anne's Eland she spotted in Addo, Pretty GROSE

Juck! reminds me of the pathology demonstrations at the vet school!
Seen lots of Elands in several nature reserves in the southern Drakensberg Range in KZN. Big Beauties!

My only sighting of eland was close to the Timbavati picnic site but this was at least 15 years ago. I think they are seen less than Roan. I say tjis because I have seen Roan twice and Eland only once. That is in KNP I am speaking of. Seen Eland on a couple of other places though.

I have also seen them on numerous occasions in KZN reserves and are pretty special to see, being quite different from the more common antelope seen in Kruger.

What comes as something of a surprise is how large they are.

but not in KNP. I'd love to see them there.
We saw them at Nukuru NP in Kenya, and we saw a threesome hanging around a Rhino in Nairobi NP.

These are cool animals, huge and magestic.

Hope to see more in KNP in March......

Cheers,

Rob

In Kruger I have only seen north at Elandskuil - fancy that..

About 10 years ago I came across a small group of Eland at Sable Dam. They were at one end while a huge Lion pride (20+ )was at the other. Neither took any notice of the other but I was close enough to the Eland to hear their knees clicking. Once they were gone, I drove up to the other end and had a close encounter with the Lions.

The only other Eland sightings that I've had have been at Ngorongoro in Tanzania and in the Masai Mara in Kenya.

Never seen Roan in the KNP, my only sighting was at Serondela in Botswana.

As for kruger , seen them up north on rare occasions , but i have seen 3 decent herds on different trips along the olifants river , between olifants and balule .

Was that eland hit by a train or something , why is the back bit facing in the oposite direction to the front bit

EDIT: Post edited by Guinea Pig.

Bucky, you'll see I edited your post after leaving it for a while for Macho Mouse to see your advice and my answer to that. Hope she saw that. Loams did stick his nose in it.

Point is, we're not allowed to mention any Nature Reserves that are not run by SANparks as this is their website.

Ooops , sorry about that .

Heard a story from a ranger from a game park in natal ,
That the eland there declined a lot due to tick fever , and there natural migration used to be towards the highlands and the drakensberg during summer .

Wonder if this is the same as with kruger , maybe the eland
used to move into the mountains to the west of the park ,
during the hot summer months .For a monster of a antelope
they sure as heck can climb though , like huge klipspringers almost .
Are there really 3000 in kruger

3000 does seem like a lot to me especially as they are not seen all that often and not in big numbers.

I can't find any current census numbers for them in Kruger but the one book does list them as 570 way back in 1992.

Interesting to know what the latest figures are.

In my latest map book (2005 edition) it shows the number at 700.