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The common eland
is tawny with up to 12 white torso stripes and dark markings, which
include foreleg garters, a short dorsal crest and neck mane, and the
tuft of the hock-length tail. Colour is paler with indistinct markings
in the southern subspecies (T. oryx oryx). A dewlap, present in
both sexes, grows long and pendulous in bulls, which also turn darker
and develop a thick, black forehead tuft. The horns are straight with
one or two screwlike spirals; horns are usually longer and thinner in
females.
The giant eland is reddish brown with a blackish neck and
vertical white striping. It has large, rounded ears. Its horns are
heavier and more widely divergent than those of the common eland; they
stretch up to 123 cm (48 inches) long in bulls.Eland
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