It can weigh almost a ton… and still jump two and a half meters from a standing start. This is the eland, one of the largest antelopes in the world. It lives in herds on the savannas of eastern and southern Africa. Males and females both have straight, spiral-twisted horns, and the older males sport a large dewlap and a dark tuft on the forehead. If you ever hear a clicking sound as it walks, don’t be alarmed: it’s its legs. And that sound carries a message: the deeper the click, the bigger the male. The eland gets almost all of its water from the plants it eats. And it was one of the animals most admired by the San people, who painted it on rocks for thousands of years.