Contains pictures, description, and the future of the animal. The name wildebeest lit. “wild animal” or “cattle”stems from South African Dutch and Afrikaans. An alternate spelling is “wildebeest.” The wildebeest, also known as the gnu is a large ungulate hooved antelope genus Connochaetes.Gnu is likely an imitation of the wildebeest’s characteristic grunting in the Khoikhoi language. The wildebeest’s height is 4555 inches at the shoulder. It averages 350 550 pounds. Its habitat consists of grassy plains and open woodlands in southern, central, and eastern Africa.

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