wildebeest

Kenya is turning to a global youth audience to showcase the eighth natural wonder of the world—the great wildebeest migration—as Africa goes all out to ramp up international tourism numbers.

Huge herds of wildebeests, over one million strong, still roam the savanna.

They have even been known to come to the rescue of wildebeest under attack by crocodiles.

When I went inside the vast dining room to announce my party, I caught a glimpse of handsome paintings of a herd of elephants here and a wildebeest migration there.

A column of wildebeest cantered rigidly in the other direction—all spindly legs, candyfloss white beards, and sloping backs.

For the last half-hour I was too busy watching the manœuvres of the wildebeest bull, to take my gaze off him for a moment.

“Jaging de wildebeest” (hunting the gnoo) is a favourite pastime of the young boers.

Some hunters brought in three wildebeest and an antelope this morning and the whole tribe's feasting up.

They were moving stealthily, as though undecided whether to sample the dead wildebeest.

It is known among the hunters and colonists as “blauw wildebeest” (blue wild-ox).