wildebeest

Examples

• All

• Typical lion prey such as buffalo, wildebeest, and zebra cannot survive the transformation of savanna grasslands to cropland.

  Academic text (2009)

• Crocodiles exact a toll from a herd of wildebeests at a river crossing.

  Academic text (2006)

• The wildebeest have to drink eventually.

  Enchanted Kingdom (2014)

• And she runs her eyes up and down him... the way a big cat looks at a slow wildebeest.

  The Women (2008)

• A herd of giant wildebeest.

  Khumba (2013)

• They're running with their friends, the wildebeest.

  Against the Wild II: Survive the Serengeti (2016)

• Do you want them to share the excitement of wildebeest crossing the Mara?

  Academic text (1996)

• There were fresh wildebeest tracks and the tracks of the zebra and Tommy.

  Fiction book (2000)

• In spite of years of observation, biologists still have much to learn about wildebeest ecology.

  Academic text (2006)

• The perils of the drought also affect wildebeest on their age-old crossing of the Mara River.

  Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

A

antelope

vswildebeest

26 2.9

An animal with long legs and curved horns that runs fast in Africa and Asia

is a specific large species with ox-like head and long tufted tail

G

gnu

vswildebeest

• South African

1 9.1

A large African antelope with curved horns and a long tail

is more general about horn shape instead of specifying backward curve

C

Connochaetes

vswildebeest

• South African

1 9.9

A large African antelope like a wildebeest with curved horns

is the everyday common name rather than the scientific genus

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology