Male Nile Lechwe at Whipsnade 08/05/10

Kobus megaceros

Still merrily making a mockery of the geographic theming in the excellent Passage Through Asia drive-through.

Am i correct in thinking they used to live in the paddock near to the cranes and sloth bears?

Where were they before that?

I've certainly seen the spare male lechwe in the paddock you mention - think that was two visits ago so 2008. When I went last year they were in Passage Through Asia.

I have a feeling the male Lechwe may have felt lonely and leapt the fence from that smaller paddock into 'Passage through Asia'. I think there are two of them? They/it has been in there sometime now, they obviously just leave them to it.