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Blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus taurinus) female and calf🐃

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SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
Mammals

🐃Blue wildebeest

Connochaetes taurinus (Burchell, 1823)

オグロヌー( 尾黒ヌー Connochaetes taurinus )は、哺乳綱偶蹄目(鯨偶蹄目とする説もあり)ウシ科ヌー属に分類される偶蹄類。

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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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