1.Either of two large African antelopes (Connochaetes gnou or C. taurinus) having a drooping mane and beard, a long tufted tail, and curved horns in both sexes. Also called wildebeest.
2.A large dark antelope with a long head, a beard and mane, and a sloping back.
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Many species of antelope are found, mostly in small numbers, including the kudu, hartebeest, the sable and roan antelope, the white tailed and the brindled gnu, waterbuck, red buck, duiker, blesbok, palla, springbuck (numerous), steinbok, grysbok and klipspringer.0 | 0 |
The elephant, giraffe, lion, leopard, hyena, zebra, buffalo, gnu, quagga, kudu, eland and many other kinds of antelope roamed the plains; the rhinoceros, hippopotamus and crocodile lived in or frequented the rivers, and ostriches and baboons were numerous.0 | 0 |
6), and the brindled gnu, or blue wildebeest (C. taurinus), which, with some local variation, has a large range in South and East Africa.0 | 0 |
The gnu, bushbuck and koodoo) can certainly lay a strong claim to the honour.0 | 0 |
A second and larger species is the brindled gnu or blue wildebeest (C. taurinus or Catoblepas gorgon), also known by the Bechuana name kokon or kokoon; and there are several East African forms more or less closely related to the latter which have received distinct names.0 | 0 |
- White-tailed Gnu, or Black Wildebeest (Connochaetes gnu).0 | 0 |
Bo.) White-tailed Gnu, or Black Wildebeest (Connochaetes gnu).0 | 0 |
Antelope of any kind are now scarce; a few white-tailed gnu are preserved.0 | 0 |
And more or less curved backwards, but in the takin they are gnu-like.0 | 0 |
GNU, the Hottentot name for the large white-tailed South African antelope, now nearly extinct, know to the Boers as the black wildebeest, and to naturalists as Connochaetes (or Catoblepas) gnu.0 | 0 |
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