#wildebeest

[camelidae]

How come no one ever told me about the White-tailed Gnus?? All this time there’s been a creature with a wildebeest’s head, three separate mohawks, and beautiful little pony’s backside stuck on and I didn’t know about it.

[jackthevulture]

Roosters and wildebeest marker sketches! Everything except the leftmost wildebeest reffed directly from unsplash. Both regular water based markers and acrylic markers for the top left rooster. Ive been enjoying drawing colorful critters so much!

[kiwihounds]

Africa’s Ugly Five

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and every single one of these incredible animals has a beauty all their own. Really enjoyed doing this series! 

[dharmaart]

Little gouache studies I painted this summer: tapir, okapi, wildebeest, and eland.

[arthistoryanimalia]

Happy Gnu Year!

“Antilope Gnou Tulbagh / Le Gnou / Der Capsche Gnou” 1780

"Gnou” 1803

“The Gnoo” 1804

“Black-Tailed Gnus” 1909

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Black Wildebeest (Connochaetes gnou)

(Photo in public domain)

Conservation Status- Least Concern

Habitat- South Africa; Nambia

Size (Weight/Length)- 180 kg; 2.2 m

Diet- Grasses; Leaves

Cool Facts- Unlike the better known blue wildebeest, the black wildebeest have frontward facing horns. These wildebeest live in small all female or all male groups, only joining during the mating season. Female wildebeest have extremely strong bonds where female calves often stay in their mother’s herd her entire life. Mature bulls set up territories and allow females to come to them. When males fight for the right to mate, black wildebeest drop to their knees and attempt to move their opponent into a standing position with their horns and neck muscles alone. When faced by a predator, black wildebeest can gallop at 80 kilometers per hour. 

Rating- 12/10 (Almost hunted to extinction and made a comeback in the thousands.)

[henk-heijmans]

Animal encounters: blue wildebeest' watch in Masai Mara, Kenya, 2017 - by Jean Jacques Alcalay, French

[auccultist-art]

wildebeest are criminally underrated here's a guy i made recently!! he's for a new universe i've been drafting 0:

[feather-bone]

Blue wildebeest! They migrate yearly in May-June, traveling routes up to 1000 miles in huge groups of up to 1.5 million individuals! Safe travels, wildebeest :-)

[ID: an illustration of a silvery brown antelope with darker stripes and face markings. It is on an orange background with branches and leaves. It is leaping to the right. End]

[vintagewildlife]

Black wildebeest By: Unknown photographer From: Natural History Magazine 1924

[foxleycrow]

Happy Gnu Year, everyone!

[snototter]

A pair of blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) grazing in Kruger National Park, South Africa

by Bernard Dupont

[le-jardin-inculte]

gnu calf plays with friend's tail, then they cuddle. this is the cutest thing I've seen, I— 🥹😭

source: NamibiaCam

[thetalkingcow]

art challenge

[alridpath]

Another commish batch! 📯

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Black wildebeest

By Marius van Dyk