Editing Common eland (section)

==Habitat and distribution==
[[File:Common elands at Cape of Good Hope 01.jpg|thumb|Common elands at [[Cape of Good Hope]], South Africa]]
Common elands live on the open plains of Southern Africa and along the foothills of the great southern African plateau. The species extends north into [[Ethiopia]] and most arid zones of [[South Sudan]], west into eastern [[Angola]] and [[Namibia]], and south to [[South Africa]]. However, a low density of elands exists in Africa due to poaching and human settlement.

Elands prefer to live in semiarid areas that contain many shrub-like bushes, and often inhabit grasslands, woodlands, subdesert, bush, and mountaintops with altitudes of about {{convert|15,000|ft|m|abbr=on}}.<ref name=adw>{{cite web|title=Taurotragus Oryx:Information|url=http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Taurotragus_oryx.html|work=University of Michigan Museum of Zoology|publisher=Animal Diversity Web}}</ref> Elands do, however, avoid forests, swamps and deserts. The places inhabited by elands generally contain ''[[Acacia]]'', ''[[Combretum]]'', ''[[Commiphora]]'', ''[[Diospyros]]'', ''[[Grewia]]'', ''[[Rhus]]'', and ''[[Ziziphus]]'' trees and shrubs; some of these also serve as their food.

Eland can be found in many national parks and reserves today, including [[Nairobi National Park]] and [[Tsavo East National Park]], [[Tsavo West National Park]], [[Masai Mara National Reserve]], (Kenya); [[Serengeti National Park]], [[Ruaha National Park]] and [[Tarangire National Park]], [[Ngorongoro Crater]], (Tanzania); [[Kagera National Park]] (Rwanda); [[Nyika National Park]] (Malawi); Lake Mburo National Park (Uganda); Kidepo Valley National Park (Uganda); [[Luangwa Valley]] and [[Kafue National Park]] (Zambia); [[Hwange National Park]], [[Matobo National Park]], [[Tuli, Zimbabwe|Tuli Safari Area]] and [[Chimanimani National Park|Chimanimani Eland Sanctuary]] (Zimbabwe); [[Kruger National Park]], [[Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park]], [[Giant's Castle]] and [[Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve|Suikerbosrand NR]] (South Africa).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wackywildlifewonders.com/files/animals/eland.html |title=Wild Animals of Africa-Common eland |publisher=Wackywildlifewonders.com |access-date=5 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110106004048/http://www.wackywildlifewonders.com/files/animals/eland.html |archive-date=6 January 2011 }}</ref>

They live on home ranges that can be 200–400&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> for females and [[Juvenile (organism)|juveniles]] and 50&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> for males.<ref name=lorezen>{{cite journal|last1=Eline D. Lorezen|author2=Charles Masembe |author3=Peter Arctander |author4=Hans R. Siegismund |title=A long-standing Pleistocene refugium in southern Africa and a mosaic of refugia in East Africa: insights from mtDNA and the common eland antelope|journal=Journal of Biogeography|year=2010|volume=37|pages=571–581|url=https://ucberkeley.academia.edu/ElineLorenzen/Papers/903464/A_long-standing_Pleistocene_refugium_in_southern_Africa_and_a_mosaic_of_refugia_in_East_Africa_insights_from_mtDNA_and_the_common_eland_antelope|doi=10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02207.x|first1=Eline D.|issue=3|s2cid=85986567 }}</ref><ref name="thinkquest1"/>