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Also saw them on the 28th from the Sand River Bridge but only got two in the pic

When I saw this Nyala bull just out side Olifant camp it was still dark.
First I thought some impalas were crossing the street. They seemed to come directly from prison, because they all were wearing the special clothes with stripes.
When I came closer I could see: These were no impalas, these were Nyalas and on the right hand side I saw this bull only a few meters away waiting to pass the street behind my car.
I stopped, fired and got a this picture of him.

Same ones as you saw Freda, same place.

On our recent trip into Kruger we saw these buck. The light brown one had me confused as she had horns, but looked way to big to be a bushbuck. We then spot the male nyala and realised it was nyala. Enjoy the sighting for ten minutes we moved on. Several km down the road a vehicle stopped us and asked if we had good pictures of the nyala. We replied we had and he told us that the light brown one was a female with horns which is meant to be very rare. What do you guys think?

the unusal female with horns.

the two nyala together

More and more Nyala sightings occurred in recent times in the Skukuza area.

Your Highness, that is indeed a rare sighting!

A nyala ewe with pretty stunted horns has been documented in Kruger before (Pafuri), but this one is a beautiful specimen, enough to make some males jealous!

Also notice the large size of the ewe - definitely some sort of hormonal imbalance!

Where was it?

WTM, as far as SKUKUZA goes, the story is that some nyala were released in the nearby private Sabi Sands area outside the Park in the 70's.

Some of them promptly made their way down the river and have been doing well ever since!

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem as if they ever occurred there naturally, and could be regarded as invaders!?

Are you sure the female with horns is not a mismarked male ?

Either way it's a great sighting !

RP - we saw this pair on the H4-1 near the Lubyelubye river. I was thinking the same thing about her size. I know in horses I have dealt with mares that are very aggressive like stallions and are unable to conceive. I wonder if this ewe has produced a calf.

We are in all likleyhood not talking about an ewe with horns here. In all the cases I have known of - either caught and examined, hunted or autopsied have been males who's testes have not fully developed.

Thanks, Jeanus! There we have it!

BTW, do you think that would also apply to Impala "ewes" that have been found with malformed horns!?

There are hunters who search out these anomalies and in the case of impala I have seen females with small deformed horns as well as males in these cases everything else seemed normal. It is probable though that the females are in some way exposed either in the womb or by their own bodies to a higher dose of male hormones. Remember too that in males if horn buds are damaged at an early age eg. running into a tree, it can cause a deformed horn to develop.

Very interesting, thanks so much. Nature is such a complicated thing, it is amazing things do not go wrong more often.

This guy spotted us on a sunset drive out of Letaba last August.

Nyala seems to do mighty fine in the Park at the moment. I've never seen so many, especially in the southern park of Kruger.

We've had sightings of them in the Lake Panic area, the Salitje road/high water bridge area and also at Olifants a few km's from the gate.

This horned female at Kanniedood Dam (Shingwedzi) on 1 Oct 2008.

She was fully grown.