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Index Blue wildebeest

The blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), also called the common wildebeest, white-bearded gnu or brindled gnu, is a large antelope and one of the two species of wildebeest.[1]

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  1. 119 relations: African buffalo, African leopard, African trypanosomiasis, African wild dog, Alkali soil, Anatomical terms of location, Angola, Animal migration, Antelope, Anthrax, Binomial nomenclature, Birth defect, Black wildebeest, Botfly, Botswana, Bovidae, Bovinae, Brachystegia, Centromere, Cheetah, Chromosome, Combretum, Cookson's wildebeest, Cornelia, South Africa, Courtship, Cradle of Humankind, Display (zoology), Edmund Heller, Estrous cycle, Eswatini, Etosha National Park, Eucestoda, Family (biology), Florisbad archaeological and paleontological site, Foot-and-mouth disease, Gangrene, Genetic divergence, Genus, Gregory Rift, Herbivore, Herpesviridae, Horn (anatomy), Hwange National Park, Hybrid (biology), Hyena, Integrated Taxonomic Information System, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Ixodidae, Kafue National Park, Kalahari Desert, ... Expand index (69 more) »

  2. Alcelaphinae
  3. Bovids of Africa
  4. Taxa named by William John Burchell

African buffalo

The African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a large sub-Saharan African bovine. Blue wildebeest and African buffalo are bovids of Africa.

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African leopard

The African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) is the nominate subspecies of the leopard, native to many countries in Africa.

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African trypanosomiasis

African trypanosomiasis is an insect-borne parasitic infection of humans and other animals.

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African wild dog

The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus), also known as the painted dog or Cape hunting dog, is a wild canine native to sub-Saharan Africa.

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Alkali soil

Alkali, or Alkaline, soils are clay soils with high pH (greater than 8.5), a poor soil structure and a low infiltration capacity.

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Anatomical terms of location

Standard anatomical terms of location are used to unambiguously describe the anatomy of animals, including humans.

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Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.

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Animal migration

Animal migration is the relatively long-distance movement of individual animals, usually on a seasonal basis.

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Antelope

The term antelope refers to numerous extant or recently extinct species of the ruminant artiodactyl family Bovidae that are indigenous to most of Africa, India, the Middle East, Central Asia, and a small area of Eastern Europe.

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Anthrax

Anthrax is an infection caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis.

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Binomial nomenclature

In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.

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Birth defect

A birth defect, also known as a congenital disorder, is an abnormal condition that is present at birth regardless of its cause.

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Black wildebeest

The black wildebeest or white-tailed gnu (Connochaetes gnou) is one of the two closely related wildebeest species. Blue wildebeest and black wildebeest are Alcelaphinae, bovids of Africa and mammals of Southern Africa.

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Botfly

Botflies, also known as warble flies, heel flies, and gadflies, are a family of flies known as the Oestridae.

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Botswana

Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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Bovidae

The Bovidae comprise the biological family of cloven-hoofed, ruminant mammals that includes cattle, yaks, bison, buffalo, antelopes (including goat-antelopes), sheep and goats.

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Bovinae

Bovines (subfamily Bovinae) comprise a diverse group of 10 genera of medium to large-sized ungulates, including cattle, bison, African buffalo, water buffalos, and the four-horned and spiral-horned antelopes.

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Brachystegia

Brachystegia is a genus of tree of the subfamily Detarioideae that is native to tropical Africa.

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Centromere

The centromere links a pair of sister chromatids together during cell division.

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Cheetah

The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is a large cat and the fastest land animal. Blue wildebeest and cheetah are extant Pleistocene first appearances.

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Chromosome

A chromosome is a package of DNA with part or all of the genetic material of an organism.

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Combretum

Combretum, the bushwillows or combretums, make up the type genus of the family Combretaceae.

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Cookson's wildebeest

Cookson's wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus cooksoni) is a subspecies of the blue wildebeest that is native to the Luangwa Valley of the Luangwa River, Zambia.

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Cornelia, South Africa

Cornelia is a town on the R103 road in the Free State province of South Africa.

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Courtship

Courtship is the period wherein some couples get to know each other prior to a possible marriage or committed romantic, de facto relationship.

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Cradle of Humankind

The Cradle of Humankind is a paleoanthropological site that is located about northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, in the Gauteng province.

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Display (zoology)

Display behaviour is a set of ritualized behaviours that enable an animal to communicate to other animals (typically of the same species) about specific stimuli.

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Edmund Heller

Edmund Heller (May 21, 1875 – July 18, 1939) was an American zoologist.

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Estrous cycle

The estrous cycle (originally) is a set of recurring physiological changes induced by reproductive hormones in females of mammalian subclass Theria.

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Eswatini

Eswatini (eSwatini), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and also known by its former official name Swaziland and formerly the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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Etosha National Park

Etosha National Park is a national park in northwestern Namibia and one of the largest national parks in Africa.

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Eucestoda

Eucestoda, commonly referred to as tapeworms, is the larger of the two subclasses of flatworms in the class Cestoda (the other subclass is Cestodaria).

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Florisbad archaeological and paleontological site

The Florisbad archaeological and paleontological site is a provincial heritage site in Soutpan in the Free State province of South Africa.

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Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) or hoof-and-mouth disease (HMD) is an infectious and sometimes fatal viral disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals, including domestic and wild bovids.

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Gangrene

Gangrene is a type of tissue death caused by a lack of blood supply.

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Genetic divergence

Genetic divergence is the process in which two or more populations of an ancestral species accumulate independent genetic changes (mutations) through time, often leading to reproductive isolation and continued mutation even after the populations have become reproductively isolated for some period of time, as there is not any genetic exchange anymore.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Gregory Rift

The Gregory Rift (Ufa la Gregori, in Swahili) is the eastern branch of the East African Rift fracture system.

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Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.

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Herpesviridae

Herpesviridae is a large family of DNA viruses that cause infections and certain diseases in animals, including humans.

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Horn (anatomy)

A horn is a permanent pointed projection on the head of various animals that consists of a covering of keratin and other proteins surrounding a core of live bone.

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Hwange National Park

Hwange National Park (formerly Wankie Game Reserve) is the largest natural reserve in Zimbabwe.

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Hybrid (biology)

In biology, a hybrid is the offspring resulting from combining the qualities of two organisms of different varieties, subspecies, species or genera through sexual reproduction.

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Hyena

Hyenas or hyaenas (from Ancient Greek ὕαινα) are feliform carnivoran mammals belonging to the family Hyaenidae.

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Integrated Taxonomic Information System

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) is an American partnership of federal agencies designed to provide consistent and reliable information on the taxonomy of biological species.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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Ixodidae

The Ixodidae are the family of hard ticks or scale ticks, one of the three families of ticks, consisting of over 700 species.

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Kafue National Park

Kafue National Park is the largest national park in Zambia, covering an area of about 22,400 km2 (similar in size to Wales or Massachusetts).

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Kalahari Desert

The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for, covering much of Botswana, as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.

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Khoekhoe

Khoekhoe (/ˈkɔɪkɔɪ/ ''KOY-koy'') (or Khoikhoi in former orthography) are the traditionally nomadic pastoralist indigenous population of South Africa.

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Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes.

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Larva

A larva (larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage.

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Least-concern species

A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of wildlife conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild.

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Lion

The lion (Panthera leo) is a large cat of the genus Panthera, native to Africa and India.

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Louse

Louse (lice) is the common name for any member of the clade Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless parasitic insects.

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Luangwa River

The Luangwa River is one of the major tributaries of the Zambezi River, and one of the four biggest rivers of Zambia.

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Lungworm

Lungworms are parasitic nematode worms of the order Strongylida that infest the lungs of vertebrates.

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Malawi

Malawi (in Chichewa and Chitumbuka), officially the Republic of Malawi and formerly known as Nyasaland, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa.

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Mange

Mange is a type of skin disease caused by parasitic mites.

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Mara Region

Mara Region (Mkoa wa Mara in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions.

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Merriam-Webster

Merriam-Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books and is mostly known for its dictionaries.

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Metaphase (and) is a stage of mitosis in the eukaryotic cell cycle in which chromosomes are at their second-most condensed and coiled stage (they are at their most condensed in anaphase).

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Miombo

Miombo woodland is a tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome (in the World Wide Fund for Nature scheme) located in central and southern tropical Africa.

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Mite

Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods).

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Mitochondrial DNA

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

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Mitosis

Mitosis is a part of the cell cycle in which replicated chromosomes are separated into two new nuclei.

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Mount Kenya

Mount Kenya (Meru: Kĩrĩmaara, Kikuyu: Kĩrĩnyaga, Kamba: Ki Nyaa, Embu: Kirinyaa) is an extinct volcano in Kenya and the second-highest peak in Africa, after Kilimanjaro.

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Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.

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Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.

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Nasal cavity

The nasal cavity is a large, air-filled space above and behind the nose in the middle of the face.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.

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Nekhen

Nekhen (nḫn), also known as Hierakonpolis (Hierákōn pólis; either: City of the Hawk, or City of the Falcon, a reference to Horus; lit) was the religious and political capital of Upper Egypt at the end of prehistoric Egypt (3200–3100 BC) and probably also during the Early Dynastic Period (3100–2686 BC).

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Nematode

The nematodes (or; Νηματώδη; Nematoda), roundworms or eelworms constitute the phylum Nematoda.

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Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a protected area and a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Ngorongoro District, west of Arusha City in Arusha Region, within the Crater Highlands geological area of northeastern Tanzania.

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Nile crocodile

The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is a large crocodilian native to freshwater habitats in Africa, where it is present in 26 countries.

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Orange River

The Orange River (from Afrikaans/Dutch: Oranjerivier) is a river in Southern Africa.

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Paramphistomum

Paramphistomum is a genus of parasitic flatworms belonging to the digenetic trematodes.

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Pentastomida

The Pentastomida are an enigmatic group of parasitic arthropods commonly known as tongue worms due to the resemblance of the species of the genus Linguatula to a vertebrate tongue; molecular studies point to them being highly-derived crustaceans.

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Philip Sclater

Philip Lutley Sclater (4 November 1829 – 27 June 1913) was an English lawyer and zoologist.

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Plains zebra

The plains zebra (Equus quagga, formerly Equus burchellii) is the most common and geographically widespread species of zebra. Blue wildebeest and plains zebra are Fauna of East Africa and mammals of Southern Africa.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Radius (bone)

The radius or radial bone (radii or radiuses) is one of the two large bones of the forearm, the other being the ulna.

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Saldanha Bay

Saldanha Bay (Saldanhabaai) is a natural harbour on the south-western coast of South Africa.

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Savanna

A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

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Scent gland

Scent gland are exocrine glands found in most mammals.

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Seasonal breeder

Seasonal breeders are animal species that successfully mate only during certain times of the year.

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Serengeti

The Serengeti ecosystem is a geographical region in Africa, spanning the Mara and Arusha Regions of Tanzania.

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Serengeti National Park

The Serengeti National Park is a large national park in northern Tanzania that stretches over.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.

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Slate

Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade, regional metamorphism.

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Snout

A snout is the protruding portion of an animal's face, consisting of its nose, mouth, and jaw.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Species description

A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication.

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Spioenkop Dam Nature Reserve

Spioenkop Dam Nature Reserve or Spion Kop Nature Reserve is a protected area in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.

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Symmetry in biology

Symmetry in biology refers to the symmetry observed in organisms, including plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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Tarangire Ecosystem

The Tarangire Ecosystem is a geographical region in northern Tanzania, Africa.

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Testosterone

Testosterone is the primary male sex hormone and androgen in males.

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Themeda triandra

Themeda triandra is a species of C4 perennial tussock-forming grass widespread in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Pacific.

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Tick

Ticks are parasitic arachnids of the order Ixodida.

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Ticks of domestic animals

Ticks of domestic animals directly cause poor health and loss of production to their hosts.

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Trematoda

Trematoda is a class of flatworms known as flukes or trematodes.

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Tympanic part of the temporal bone

The tympanic part of the temporal bone is a curved plate of bone lying below the squamous part of the temporal bone, in front of the mastoid process, and surrounding the external part of the ear canal.

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Ulna

The ulna or ulnar bone (ulnae or ulnas) is a long bone in the forearm stretching from the elbow to the wrist.

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Upper Egypt

Upper Egypt (صعيد مصر, shortened to الصعيد,, locally) is the southern portion of Egypt and is composed of the Nile River valley south of the delta and the 30th parallel N. It thus consists of the entire Nile River valley from Cairo south to Lake Nasser (formed by the Aswan High Dam).

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Walter Plowright

Walter Plowright CMG FRS FRCVS (20 July 1923 in Holbeach, Lincolnshire – 19 February 2010 in London) was an English veterinary scientist who devoted his career to the eradication of the cattle plague rinderpest.

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Western white-bearded wildebeest

The western white-bearded wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus mearnsi) also known as Mearn's white-bearded wildebeest, Mearn's wildebeest, Serengeti white-bearded wildebeest, or the Serengeti wildebeest, is a subspecies of the blue wildebeest being the smallest, and lightest subspecies of the species. Blue wildebeest and western white-bearded wildebeest are Alcelaphinae.

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Wildebeest

Wildebeest, also called gnu, are antelopes of the genus Connochaetes and native to Eastern and Southern Africa. Blue wildebeest and Wildebeest are Alcelaphinae and extant Pleistocene first appearances.

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William John Burchell

William John Burchell (23 July 1781 – 23 March 1863) was an English explorer, naturalist, traveller, artist, and author.

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Woodland

A woodland is, in the broad sense, land covered with woody plants (trees and shrubs), or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the plurale tantum woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (see differences between British, American and Australian English explained below).

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Wormian bones

Wormian bones, also known as intrasutural bones or sutural bones, are extra bone pieces that can occur within a suture (joint) in the skull.

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X chromosome

The X chromosome is one of the two sex chromosomes in many organisms, including mammals, and is found in both males and females.

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Y chromosome

The Y chromosome is one of two sex chromosomes in therian mammals and other organisms.

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Zambezi

The Zambezi (also spelled Zambeze and Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in Africa, the longest east-flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. Its drainage basin covers, slightly less than half of the Nile's. The river rises in Zambia and flows through eastern Angola, along the north-eastern border of Namibia and the northern border of Botswana, then along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe to Mozambique, where it crosses the country to empty into the Indian Ocean.

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Zambia

Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa.

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Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.

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See also

Alcelaphinae

Bovids of Africa

Taxa named by William John Burchell

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wildebeest

Also known as Blue Wildebeast, Bluewildebeest, Brindled Gnu, Brindled wildebeest, Common Wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus, Connochaetes taurinus cooksoni, Connochaetes taurinus taurinus, Eastern White-bearded Wildebeest, Nyassaland Wildebeest, Sexual behavior of blue wildebeest, The Blue Wildebeest, White-bearded Wildebeest, White-bearded gnu.

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