Sable antelope populations were once down to just 44 animals, but today Coutada 11 likely has more sable antelope per square mile than any wilderness hunting area in Africa, and it's not uncommon to see herds of sable bulls that number more than the entire population when the original census was conducted in 1994.

The reports specify 'Mogashoa breeds buffalo, sable antelope and roan antelope, as well as common plains game such as impala and gemsbok.'

The land is home to a rare game breeding programme including buffalo and sable antelope and offers eco-tourism safaris.

In addition to the bongo, Hatwood said, three or four of the center's sable antelope, two or three eland and a duiker (DIKE-er) also are probably pregnant.

To me the sable antelope is worthy of its royal status, and personally I find a jet-black bull the most striking of all the antelope on earth.

The fountain at the entrance has water spouting from the scimitar-shaped horns of sable antelope. And a life-sized statue of famous South African elephant Shawu guards a courtyard.

Two of these sites were in semi-intensive fenced breeding camps for roan and sable antelope and two study sites were in free-roaming game areas.

Two white rhinoceros sold for N$340,000 each, six sable antelope for an average of N$268,333 with the highest price of N$430,000 paid for a sable cow.

"When my light found the eyes of the sable antelope for the first time, I was taken aback by how awesome this animal really is," Wolthoff says.

"It's a globally important area for birds, it's the only habitat for the Roosevelt Sable antelope, we have a huge number of elephants and we have plants that have medicinal value.

Three giraffe and sable antelope were more wary, moving into a grove of mopane trees.

Today the farm has a budding breeding programme for rhino and sable antelope.