The Wildebeest is the star of the world's greatest animal spectacular.The annual migration from Serengeti to the Maasai Mar.More than a million of these strange looking creatures are joined by Zebra and Topi to march from Southern Serengeti to the Northernmost corner of the Mara.
Huge scores of these antelopes congregate on the East African savannas, a sight which few who have seen will forget.
Several races of wildebeest (also called gnu) exist. The species that forms the large herds of the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem of Tanzania and Kenya is known as the western white-bearded wildebeest (C. t. mearnsi). The brindled or blue race occurs south of the Zambezi River; the eastern white-bearded race inhabits Kenya and Tanzania east of Gregory Rift.
The head of the wildebeest is large and box-like and both males and females have curving horns. The front end of the body is heavily built, the hindquarters slender and the legs spindly. The coat is gray and has a black mane and a beard which may be black or white.
By Carolyne Veke.
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