Roan Antelope

[Richprins]

Go away...you are off-topic!

[Toko]

There is evidence that Roan where native to the Western Cape and the coastal region

Link

[Richprins]

Highly unlikely!

Would like to see any "fossil evidence" from the Karoo, Eastern Cape and Free state, for example?

20 000 years is a long time, climatologically, but one eyewitness account and 300 years is different!

Bluebuck!

[Toko]

There was indeed big confusion about Roan and Blue Buck sightings in the Cape region amongst the early hunters and explorers. And who knows how many of the Blue Buck sightings on the southern coast where Roan ?

This is the single observation from 1778




Thesis


But there are fossil founds of Roan from Oakhurst and Nelson Bay Cave (Plettenberg area) from Holocene

[Richprins]

Babalala, Oct 2014:

[Richprins]

From aat, Mopane Camp Oct 2015:







More here:



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[Alf]

Really lucky sightings indeed

[Flutterby]

Lovely colours in your first pics.

[Richprins]

Aat - Shingwedzi river east of camp drought 2016

[Flutterby]