(1) After a few weeks, the eland will be pregnancy tested - and the researchers will wait out the 11-month incubation period.(2) Across the open grasslands are scattered various members of the antelope family - horned bushbucks, waterbucks, eland , topi, gazelle and impala.(3) They are typically graceful, having long legs and horns, and include the eland , wildebeest, gazelle, springbok, hartebeest, impala, etc.(4) The women's tribe, the Moroyok, raised antelopes, including the eland , which the Maasai claim to have been the first species of cattle.(5) In the dry season, July to November, the river is an excellent place for observing large numbers of game including lions, leopards, hunting dogs, giraffe, waterbuck, eland and warthogs.(6) Animals include duikers, eland and colobus, vervet and blue monkeys.(7) There are antelope species like eland , impala, puku, waterbuck, bushbuck and kudu whereas lion leopard, wild dog and hyaena are also present.(8) Shy bushbuck, kudu, eland , impala, and elephant all take their turn whilst buffalo and waterbuck make their way to the sandy banks of the Zambesi.(9) Greater kudu, bushbuck and eland , the spiral-horned tribe of antelope approach watering points with caution because of lions which patronise these areas.(10) Cantering herds of zebra, eland and roan antelope scatter then coalesce as we drone over them.(11) Recent estimates suggest that there are more than 12,000 elephants, 3,000 Cape buffalo, 9,000 sable antelope, 3,000 elands , and a few hundred each of leopards, lions, and spotted hyena, among other animals.
