Robert Clarkのインスタグラム(robertclarkphoto) - 9月1日 02時53分
I photographed this giant Eland at the #TaxidermyWorldChampionships in Springfield Illinois.
The giant eland is also called "Lord Derby's eland" in honour of Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby. It was due to his efforts that the giant eland was first introduced to England between 1835 and 1851.
Previous genetic studies of African savanna ungulates revealed the presence of a long-standing Pleistocene refugium in east and South Africa, which also includes the giant eland. The common eland and giant eland have been estimated to have diverged about 1.6 million years ago.
An accidental mating between a male giant eland and a female kudu produced a male offspring, but it was #azoospermic (Azoospermia is the medical condition of a male not having any measurable level of sperm in his semen.) Notable mixed inherited traits were pointed ears as the eland's, but a bit widened like kudu's. The tail was half the length of that of an eland with a tuft of hair at the end as in kudu.
#Evolution #Africa #Eland #Taxidermy
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