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Taurotragus derbianus (giant eland)

Synonyms: Boselaphus derbianus (homotypic)

Infraspecies

Taurotragus derbianus derbianus (western eland)
Taurotragus derbianus gigas

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1,038.934 lbs (471.25 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  68.099 lbs (30.889 kg)
Female Weight [1]  865.319 lbs (392.50 kg)
Male Weight [1]  1,212.549 lbs (550.00 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  40.1 %
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  30 %
Diet - Plants [2]  70 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  3 years
Male Maturity [1]  4 years
Gestation [3]  8 months 24 days
Litter Size [3]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  20 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  8.725 feet (266 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
East Sudanian savanna Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Guinean forest-savanna mosaic Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Senegal Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Central African Republic, Cameroon Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Grewia damine[4]
Hymenocardia acida[4]
Strychnos spinosa (Natal orange)[4]
Ziziphus mauritiana (Indian jujube)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Lybius vieilloti (Vieillot's Barbet)1
Tragelaphus strepsiceros (greater kudu)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Haematopinus jeannereti[5]
Taenia crocutae[6]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4"Diet Composition of Western Derby eland (Taurotragus derbianus derbianus) in the Dry Season in a Natural and a Managed Habitat in Senegal using Faecal Analyses", Pavla Hejcmanová, Miloslav Homolka, Markéta Antonínová, Michal Hejcman & Veronika Podhájecká, South African Journal of Wildlife Research 40(1):27-34. 2010
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0