Are giant eland really bigger in body or is it just their horns are bigger? Of all the pictures I've seen I wouldn't think they are any bigger in body than the Livingstones.

Some Lord Derby are bigger than others.

This one, for example, is a brute:


Others, however, are basically the same size (or smaller) than EA eland and Livingstone Eland.

That is a huge Eland, indeed!

Man, the LDE revs my engine...

Wow.............! Wow! Beautiful animals!

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Originally posted by 376 steyr:
Are giant eland really bigger in body or is it just their horns are bigger? Of all the pictures I've seen I wouldn't think they are any bigger in body than the Livingstones.

As far as I know, and that is not much, the Cape Eland is the common Eland,which is a very large animal.

The so-called GIANT ELAND & the LIVINGSTONES ELAND, I thought were the same animal, and get quite a bit larger than the Cape, or common Eland! ...................NO?

Like everyone else here, I think that is one hell of an Eland in the picture posted by safari-lawyer! Regardless of species or subspecies he's a very large animal! Makes mine look like a calf!

I understand they are all of the same weight on average.

West African Giant Eland
Central African Giant Eland
Patterson's Eland (some say same as East African Eland)
Livingstone's Eland
Cape Eland.

It's the horns or at least I think so. Here's my Livingston's. Old bull and big bodied. jorge

Big animals! Notice that PH Thierry Labat is in two of the posted photos. Thierry loves to hunt Eland.

Jorge, that is one nice bull. In fact, all the bulls pictured here are nice. Here is a pic of mine. He's an old bull and was on the downhill stretch; losing body weight and beginning to have the skin and bones look. He was obviously "Left Handed" as he had significantly worn down the left horn. He didn't have the long and massive horns of the others here but there was something about him that I liked.

From my copy of Audabon Society Animals of Africa; Average weights of Lord Derby Giant Eland and Common Eland are approximately the same. The horns of the Giant Eland are typically longer and hence the name.

A LDE in it's prime with good specie's genetics is significantly larger than a common (Cape, Livingstone, or East African) eland.

There are common eland that will outweigh LDE, but their heads are not as big, and as mentioned above, their horns are shorter and less massive.

I personally believe there is a LDE out there somewhere with 60" horns. I would like to find it one day, with my .338 at my side. (I also believe there is a Mountain Nyala out there somewhere that is 50", which of course I would like to find too.)

Hunters have called me idiotic and crazy at times and I'm sure that will continue.

Safari Lawyer that is one awsome and robust LDE and the one below it........unbeliveable horns. I love their coloration versus the rather slat gray of the other subspecies. I guess the LDEs don't wear their horns down like the other subspecies. And Todd Williams you took the "old man" of the bush. I took a big livingstone in the save conservancy on 31 august of last year and his horns measured 38 1/2 inches. He had a big auburn rough of hair on his forehead. My PH told me to make sure my taxidermist new that was a special eland, for a livingstone at least. His horns were green from the branches he had been pulling down with them to eat.