"I have my eye on you" Says the Eland at the Werribee Open Range Zoo.

The social organisation of the Eland is somewhat different from that of other antelopes. The older males tend to live a relatively solitary existence while fema...
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The social organisation of the Eland is somewhat different from that of other antelopes. The older males tend to live a relatively solitary existence while females and young Eland live together in groups – sometimes huge herds of several hundred animals. Females have a gestation period of nine months and give birth to one calf each time. Females with new calves then come together in nursery groups before weaning their young at about three months of age, at which time the mothers re-join the herd and the calves remain together in the nursery group or ‘creche’ until they are almost two years old. With year-round births, there are always adult females present in the nursery group and they defend all juveniles present, not just their own.
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