. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. ong the neck. Connochates taurinus is styled the brindled gnu fromthe vertical lines of differently directed bans on the sides of the neck and different set of the hair in these streaks gives the impression of dark grey similar effects are seen on the neck of certain hartebeests. The ears in thebrindled gnu are long like those of the hartebeests; they are shorter in the white-tailedgnu. The tail of the brindled gnu is almost covered with a plume of coarse blackhak, and bears such a remarkable resemb
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. ong the neck. Connochates taurinus is styled the brindled gnu fromthe vertical lines of differently directed bans on the sides of the neck and different set of the hair in these streaks gives the impression of dark grey similar effects are seen on the neck of certain hartebeests. The ears in thebrindled gnu are long like those of the hartebeests; they are shorter in the white-tailedgnu. The tail of the brindled gnu is almost covered with a plume of coarse blackhak, and bears such a remarkable resemblance to a horses tail that this detail, coupledwith the horse-like mane and pony-like brdld, was suflicient excuse for the showman inthe earlier type of menagerie to call the gnu the Horned Horse. The distributionof the gnus deserves a little description. The white-tailed gnu is entirely confined toAfrica south of the Zambezi, where it is almost extinct owing to a hundred yearsslaughter at the hands of sportsmen, a slaughter which was intensified during the recent. photograph hi/ C. Knight. WHITE-TAUJED GNU (Connochcetes gnu). 206 Animal Life
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