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)

De blauwe gnoe, ook wel gestreepte gnoe of gewone gnoe (Connochaetes taurinus) is een antilope uit de familie der holhoornigen (Bovidae). Hij komt vaak in grote groepen voor op de savannen van oostelijk en zuidelijk Afrika. Beroemd zijn de grote trektochten die deze soort onderneemt. De blauwe gnoe is samen met de witstaartgnoe (Connochaetes gnou) een van de twee nog levende soorten gnoes.

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303
Photos
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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 2.9× your weight
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

Figures vary

  • 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

Figures vary

  • 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
Details ↓

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.

More

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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