The African Hunter Magazine Volume 19 # 5 | Seite 3

In This Issue FEATURE Butterflies of Southern Africa .......... 36 The Bloodless Buffalo of Sengwa .... 6 The Central African Republic Part I Hunting the Lord Derby's Eland ...... 28 Various Hunters and their Trophies ................................... 34 Obituary Ron Anger ........................................... 38 REGULAR COLUMNS From The Editor ...................... 4 On Target .................................. 5 Press Release Youth Demands Urgent Action Against Wildlife Crime ....................................9 The Client Diaries African Dream ................................... 10 Memories of The Past Hunting Somalia - As it was Part III................................................. 39 Overheard on AR Thoughts on an African Classic ........... 42 AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES Bushcraft Etiquette on Safari............................... 12 Ballistics The Mr X Files The Brigadier .......................................... I Kit Review The Koenig "Atrox" ............................ III Relative Trauma Potential - Comparing Cartridges Part IV ............................... 14 Hunters Guide Economical and Convenient Big Bore Practise ....................................... 17 Fact File Mushrooms of Zimbabwe .............. 27 Cal on Doubles By Cal Pappas .......................................IV Hunting With Handguns Carl, Me - An Impala and a Suni ..........VI Tales from the Great North Road William Charles Baldwin Adventurer.......................................... VII Volume 19 No 5 - 2014 Duba Issue Photo: Dave Christensen Hunter's Gallery 'Duba’ is the Khoisan word for the eland, which also features prominently in San bushman culture. Ranging throughout Botswana, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, the common eland (Taurotragus oryx) is also known as the southern eland. It is a savannah and plains species, which was first described by Peter Simon Pallas in 1766. An adult male is around 1.6 metres tall at the shoulder - females are around twenty centimetres shorter - and can weigh up to 942kg with a good average weight being between 500–600kg. It is the second largest antelope in the world, being only slightly smaller on average than its equatorial cousin the Lord Derby’s, or giant, eland. Herbivorous, its primary diet consists of grasses and leaves. This species typically forms herds of between twenty and sixty, but throughout the rainy season herds of up to 1000 animals may be observed - but the herds are not territorial. The common eland prefers habitats with a wide variety of flowering plants - savannah, woodlands, and open and montane grasslands, and avoids dense forests. Bulls, which are more likely to be found in forested areas, develop a dominance hierarchy that determines mating eligibility. Cows, which prefer the more open areas, also craft a dominance hierarchy which regulates such things as feeding sites. Eland use loud barks, visual and postural movements to communicate and warn others of danger. Providing leather and milk, this species has been domesticated in many areas, especially in South Africa. The common eland's population is decreasing due to ever-increasing competition with man and resultant habitat degradation and loss but it is classified as "Least Concern" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. 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