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SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
Mammals

🐃Common eland

Taurotragus oryx (Pallas, 1766)

El antílope eland común o eland común (Taurotragus oryx) es una especie de mamífero artiodáctilo de la familia Bovidae. Es herbívoro y es endémico en el África subsahariana. Es una de las dos especies de antílopes africanos que, junto al eland gigante, componen el género Taurotragus. De gran tamaño y con gran parecido a los bovinos. Posee una gran papada en el cuello, que contribuye a disipar el calor. Como el camello, para evitar la deshidratación y la pérdida de líquidos cuando las temperaturas son muy altas, puede aumentar la temperatura corporal para impedir la sudoración.

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Measurements
5
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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
500 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
26 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common eland

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
500 kg
AnAge
Other figures ↓

data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

By sex

  • Male30 kgWikidataQ216815
  • Female26 kgWikidataQ216815
Maximum lifespan
26 years
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
274 days
AnAge
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
1
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Volume l
500 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common eland yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderArtiodactyla
  5. ›familyBovidae
  6. ›genusTaurotragus
  7. ›speciesTaurotragus oryx
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  3. familyBovidae
  4. subfamilyBovinae
All 15 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  12. suborderRuminantia
  13. infraorderPecora
  14. familyBovidae
  15. subfamilyBovinae
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More about the Common eland

Closest relative on this site
🐃 Bongo — last shared an ancestor ≈ 3.6 million years ago.
In other languages
Elenantilope (de), علند مألوف (ar), Eland (pl), éland (fr), Taurotragus oryx (es), jávorantilop (hu) … and 26 more languages

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