Impregnate forehead tuft with moist or urine-soaked soil and brush this paste on tree trunks, bushes, or walls as a marking. Use horns for fighting and to break branches off trees. Display broadside, keeping head up and away and presenting shoulder region. Males are sexually mature at 4 years of age, females at 3 years. Apparently there is no fixed breeding season but the majority of births are at the beginning of the rainy season.
Males decide ranking by their sparring within the nursery group.
Females will cooperatively fight predators. Life span is 15-20 years. Can go for long periods without drinking, getting sufficient moisture from food. Elands have been tamed, but not domesticated as yet. Adult males produce a clicking noise when walking, possibly originating in the tendons of the front legs.