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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wildebeest \Wilde"beest`\, n. [D. wild wild + beeste beast.] (Zo["o]l.) The gnu.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context South Africa English) gnu.
WordNet
n. large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail [syn: gnu]
Wikipedia
The wildebeests, also called gnus or wildebai, are a genus of antelopes, Connochaetes. They belong to the family Bovidae, which includes antelopes, cattle, goats, sheep and other even-toed horned ungulates. Connochaetes includes two species, both native to Africa: the black wildebeest, or white-tailed gnu (C. gnou); and the blue wildebeest, or brindled gnu (C. taurinus). Fossil records suggest these two species diverged about one million years ago, resulting in a northern and a southern species. The blue wildebeest remained in its original range and changed very little from the ancestral species, while the black wildebeest changed more in order to adapt to its open grassland habitat in the south. The most obvious way of telling the two species apart are the differences in their colouring and in the way their horns are oriented.
In East Africa, the blue wildebeest is the most abundant big game species; some populations perform an annual migration to new grazing grounds, but the black wildebeest is merely nomadic. Breeding in both takes place over a short period of time at the end of the rainy season and the calves are soon active and are able to move with the herd. Nevertheless, some fall prey to large carnivores. Wildebeest often graze in mixed herds with zebra which gives heightened awareness of potential predators. They are also alert to the warning signals emitted by other animals such as baboons. Wildebeest are a tourist attraction but compete with domesticated livestock for pasture and are sometimes blamed by farmers for transferring diseases and parasites to their cattle. Some illegal hunting goes on but the population trend is fairly stable and some populations are in national parks or on private land. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists both as least-concern species.
A Wildebeest is a type of African antelope.
Wildebeest may also refer to:
- The Vickers Vildebeest, a 20th Century torpedo bomber
- Baby Wildebeest, a fictional character in DC Comics' New Titans series.
- Wildebeest (ride), a water slide at Holiday World & Splashin' Safari in Santa Claus, Indiana
- Wildebeest Chess, a chess variant by R. Wayne Schmittberger
- Wildebeest (ship, 2009), a ship of the Philippines
Wildebeest is a water coaster at Holiday World & Splashin' Safari in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States. It was designed and built beginning in 2009 by ProSlide Technology; it opened on May 7, 2010. Wildebeest is named after the African mammal, keeping with the water park's safari theme. When it was completed in 2010, Wildebeest held the record for the world's longest water coaster at long. It held that record until May 11, 2012, when Mammoth, Holiday World's second water coaster, took over the title at long. In 2010, Wildebeest was voted the world's " Best New Waterpark Ride" at the Golden Ticket Awards, which are presented annually by Amusement Today magazine. Wildebeest was also awarded the Golden Ticket Award for "Best Waterpark Ride" in 2010 and 2011.
Wildebeest is the name of different characters from DC Comics.
Usage examples of "wildebeest".
Like runaway construction cranes, giraffe clans loped along above great herds of gemsbok and blue wildebeest.
In addition to the waterbucks that had fled Lake Kiboko, I saw gazelles, wildebeest, zebras, and ungainly giraffids with antlers like massive human pelvises.
Only four days since I had landed here first, in my first African dawn, over a grey ochreish plain dotted exactly as it should be with the etiolated acacias you see on all the posters, and wildebeest and buffalo we were coming in over the Nairobi National Park.
Wildebeest Motor Works, with manual steering, a logarithmic tachometer, and two dangling wires where the anti-collision computer used to be.
Britain were like overgorged vultures on the Serengeti Plain at the time of the annual Wildebeest march.
They rolled up it, they were amoeboid, they were urchinlike, studded with bones they made limbs, they made themselves suddenly humanoid or like some unskinned and baying wildebeests, and they scrambled the height of the rise and paused at its top, then hurled down onto the screaming men, and Cutter saw what they did.
On our third and final night at Arusha, Hannes was excited that his work was about to start and Crocker, who had so far shot little but wildebeest, had the scent of bigger game in his nostrils.
But though there were great herbivores to fill the roles of antelopes, elephants, hippos, and wildebeests, and predators who hunted like lions, cheetahs, and hyenas, these animals were more closely related to birds than to any mammal.
And not just the big fivethe elephant, rhinoceros, leopard, lion, and cape buffalobut also predators and prey of every ilk: the Nile crocodile, hippo, cheetah, hyena, wildebeest, jackal, giraffe, zebra, waterbuck, kudu, impala, reedbuck, warthog, baboons.
There were reedbucks with horns pricked forward inquisitively and tails like white powder puffs, zebras at a distance looking not striped but a uniform gray color, wildebeests with Roman noses and scraggly beards chasing each other in mindless circles like clowns, stirring the black ash in a cloud around themselves.
The wildebeests or elands or okapis are where they thought, in the numbers and condition they estimated.
They soon reached a drier, hotter area, free of trees and scrubland, brimful of gazelles and zebra and impala and wildebeest.
Though they were larger than later mammalian equivalents like wildebeest or antelope, they walked on two legs like outsized ostriches, their strides long, their heads bobbing.
Nebo and Bolivar and stood blinking at the creatures that crowded the great space ahead like thirsty animals flocking around a water hole in a dry time, all of them different: warthogs and elephants, impalas and zebras, wildebeests and ibex.
Some of you heard what happened on Media Daya little problem with the Barbara Walters crew and that horny pair of wildebeests in quadrant seven.