The gnu gets its name from its queer grunt. Also called the wildebeest, its more popular moniker, it is one of nature’s oddities. It has a body that is part bovine and part antelope, with a head that seems to be a cross between a goat and a bull. Every year, after the northern hemisphere experiences the long rains, huge herds of this strange animal migrate en-masse from the Serengeti grasslands into the Masai Mara in Kenya in search of fresh grass, thus setting into motion one of nature’s classic epics.
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Source:- IIPM Editorial, 2006
