Wildebeests (Connochaetes sp.)

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The size of the blue wildebeest (a.k.a. Gnu/Ñu) from East and South Africa (Connochaetes taurinus):

Just like the chital in India, the blue wildebeest if among the most principal prey item in most of Africa and is famous for its large migration in the East. Here is a comparison of size of the different subspecies:

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To be sincere, I don't believed that it was such a difference in size, however although I know that Sachs do measured its animals "between pegs" (thanks to Guggisberg), I have now idea about how Attwell made its measurements in KwaZulu-Natal, so the method used could explain the differences in height. In body weights, the difference is more dramatic between those of the Serengeti and those of South Africa, although the specimens in South Kenya approximate them.

Well, I hope this help to get a good idea about this famous animal.

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Photo and information credits: Sanjeev Managoli
Male Blue Wildebeests in Combat
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Wildebeests fight in an effort to gain dominance and take control of the herd – they knock heads and hit at the base of the horns but seldom injure one another. They go through a highly ritualized “challenge” in which they paw the ground, buck, snort and fight. 

Blue Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) ..
November 2017,
Maasai Mara National Reserve, 
Narok County, Kenya..

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From Masai Mara, Kenya,

Photo and information credits: Ketan Khambhatta Photography
"A flying wildebeest!! They come in thousands. They have no clue on what the herd ahead is up to. But they only know to accelerate, leap and sometimes fly into the River, in the desperate hope to cross the river alive. The momentum that is required to make this 180 odd kg body to fly into the river is tremendous and that energy can only be witnessed live. It’s a spectacle."

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From Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve:
"A territorial male Blue Wildebeest stands his guard in the middle of his territory as the sun sets."

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