: either of two large African antelopes (Connochaetes gnou and C. taurinus) with a head like that of an ox, short mane, long tail, and horns in both sexes that curve downward and outward
called alsognu
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Researchers Lillian Spencer and Eric Scott also studied the ways horse teeth and those of bighorn sheep were worn down differently from different foods, and concluded that their diets were much like those of the wildebeests and zebras of the modern African Serengeti.—Michael Ray Taylor, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2025 If the narwhal tusk, a tightly spiraling tooth than can grow up to nine feet in length, was not in fact from a unicorn, then perhaps the horn of the southern African wildebeest or gnu was what the ancients meant by a unicorn—never mind that these are actually two-horned.—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Apr. 2025 Some previous studies have indeed shown that cattle can compete for grass with wild herbivores such as wildebeests, impalas, Thomson’s gazelles, zebras, buffalo, and giraffes.—Bygeoffrey Kamadi, science.org, 10 Sep. 2024 Lilliputian lions, whose wildebeests are passing butterflies.—Jessica Camille Aguirre, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wildebeest
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