By Colin (not verified) on 07 Apr 2009 #permalink
And, in addition to their distinctive color patches, hair tufts, manes and dewlaps . elands are just magnificent creatures! Thanks, Darren, for posting about them!
On the etymological theme of my comment on yesterday s post: European languages just don t have the resources to talk about antelope! Not only is the common name, eland, from a word for elk, but the Linnean name Taurotragus is, like many other antelope generics, cobbled together from words for Artiodactyls better known to Europeans: Bull-goat ! Which, we are told, can interbreed with Tragelaphus, Goat-deer .
By Allen Hazen (not verified) on 07 Apr 2009 #permalink