Blue wildebeest

Connochaetes taurinus · Bovidae

The blue wildebeest, also called the common wildebeest, white-bearded gnu or brindled gnu, is a large antelope and one of the two species of wildebeest. It is placed in the genus Connochaetes and family Bovidae, and has a close taxonomic relationship with the black wildebeest. The blue wildebeest is known to have five subspecies.

Where the Blue wildebeest lives

Recorded in South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Namibia, Angola and Botswana (Africa).

Most records fall in Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Arusha, Oshikoto, Rift Valley and KwaZulu-Natal.

See the Blue wildebeest’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 14,589 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.