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Black Wildebeest

Connochaetes gnou

Photo by LisaGrant
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Field Notes

Description:

The wildebeest have a broad muzzle shaped like a lawnmower which helps it with eating short grass

Notes:

Also called gnu or water buffalo

Reference Links:

Connochaetes gnou (Zimmermann, 1780), Wildebeest

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PublishedJune 4, 2011

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