Abstract
Little is known about the thermoregulatory response of the eland, a tropical animal often raised in temperate climate. We compared the surface temperature ( T s) of the eland with that of similarly sized Holstein–Friesian dairy cattle at three different ambient temperatures ( T a) to get better evidence about thermal response. The T s of all body areas (neck, dewlap, trunk, body forepart, barrel, body hind part, forelimb and rear limb) did not differ at T a 29.2 °C, but at T a 12.5 °C all the areas of the eland (except the neck) had lower mean T s than those areas in cattle. At T a 0.4 °C, only the eland dewlap had a lower T s and the eland neck had a higher T s than that in cattle.
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