This "Angolan Field Group" has field cameras capturing wildlife, including natural hybrids. Sounds like the wildlife is making a strong comeback, but hybridization may endanger some of the Giant Sable

http://angolafieldgroup.wordpress.com/palanca-negra/
Hybrid bull


Hybrid cows


hybrid calves

Are Sable and Roan so closely related that these first generation crossbreds will not be sterile?

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Originally posted by Sevenxbjt:
Are Sable and Roan so closely related that these first generation crossbreds will not be sterile?

Don't know if anybody knows for sure. If any of the hybrids were fertile, it would likely be the females, and if that happens, maybe the cameras will document a hybrid w/calf.

Craig Smith, of the African Sporting Gazette, informs me that only female Giant Sable have been photographed. The search is on for remaining males.

Craig provided this photo of a young male that is hopefully a candidate to help prevent extinction: