Black Wildebeest
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? Black Wildebeest |
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| Connochaetes gnou Fouche, 1823 |
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The Black Wildebeest or White-tailed gnu (Connochaetes gnou) natural populations of this species, endemic to the southern region of Africa, have been almost completely exterminated, but the species has been reintroduced widely, both in private areas and nature reserves throughout most of Lesotho , Swaziland , South Africa and Namibia, also introduced outside its natural range (Wilson & Reeder, 1993; East, 1989, 1996).
Its preferred habitat types are grassveld savanna and Karoo of the central South Africa plateau (Lynch, 1983; von Richter, 1974).