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Blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus taurinus) female and calf🐃

Photo: Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
Mammals

🐃Blue wildebeest

Connochaetes taurinus (Burchell, 1823)

Juovagnuu eli juovikasgnu (Connochaetes taurinus) on eteläisessä ja kaakkoisessa Afrikassa elävä sorkkaeläin. Se on kahdesta gnuulajista suurikokoisempi. Sen pituus on 180–250 senttimetriä ja paino 150–275 kiloa. Se elää suurina laumoina. Alalajit: C. t. taurinus – sinignu eli mustapartagnu C. t. albojubatus – valkopartagnu C. t. cooksoni – cooksoningnu C. t. johnstoni – johnstoningnu C. t. mearnsi – valkopartagnu eli serengetinvalkopartagnu

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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Also called
Brindled Gnu, Common Wildebeest, White-bearded Wildebeest
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
181 kg
Body length
2.21 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
25 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Blue wildebeest

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
181 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 165 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length
2.21 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
400 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
25 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 24 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length
8.06 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
2.3 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
253 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 253 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
4.83 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
181 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Blue wildebeest yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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More about the Blue wildebeest

Closest relative on this site
🐃 Hartebeest — last shared an ancestor ≈ 5.6 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants100%
In other languages
نو أزرق (ar), Streifengnu (de), Connochaetes taurinus (es), Gnou bleu (fr), オグロヌー (ja), Gnu pręgowane (pl) … and 25 more languages

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