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Elands live in small herds and are primarily browsers rather than grazers.
The two species of eland are the largest of all living antelopes. Its oxlike body is light brown, with a few narrow white stripes running across the back and down the sides. It has a hump between the shoulders, a short, erect, black mane, and a long tail with a short, black tuft. The common eland is easily tamed, and some attempts have been made at domestication. Its numbers have been greatly reduced by hunting for meat and hides and by recurrent epidemics of rinderpest, a bovine disease to which elands are particularly susceptible.