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Habitat
Light wooded open savannas and short grass plains are ideal conditions for
wildebeest.
Wildebeest are gregarious animals, concentrating in herds of up to a few thousand
animals, if conditions are propitious. There are no stable social groupings in the
herd, where they try to retain the cows and their calves. Fights amongst adult bulls
consist mainly in a lot of pushing, each contender on to his knees, Not causing any
bodily harm at all. Young wildebeest are evicted from the breeding herds at the age
of 12 months, forming bachelor groups of up to 40 individuals. The female does not
leave the herd to give birth. Although it has a fragile appearance at birth, the calf is
able to follow it's mother within about 2 hours. Wildebeest have two annual cyclic
migrations coinciding with the rainy summer season and the dry season in winter.
They follow fixed migration patterns, with the same wet and dry season
concentration areas used every year. Adult bulls can weigh up to 250 Kg and cows
up to 215 Kg, and have a life span of about 20 years.
Wildebeest are exclusively grazers and prefer growth less than 10 to 15 cm high.
Cows give birth to a single young in November and December after a gestation
period of 250 to 260 days and give birth for the first time at the age of 3 years.
Light wooded open savannas and short grass plains are ideal conditions for
wildebeest.
Wildebeest are gregarious animals, concentrating in herds of up to a few thousand
animals, if conditions are propitious. There are no stable social groupings in the
herd, where they try to retain the cows and their calves. Fights amongst adult bulls
consist mainly in a lot of pushing, each contender on to his knees, Not causing any
bodily harm at all. Young wildebeest are evicted from the breeding herds at the age
of 12 months, forming bachelor groups of up to 40 individuals. The female does not
leave the herd to give birth. Although it has a fragile appearance at birth, the calf is
able to follow it's mother within about 2 hours. Wildebeest have two annual cyclic
migrations coinciding with the rainy summer season and the dry season in winter.
They follow fixed migration patterns, with the same wet and dry season
concentration areas used every year. Adult bulls can weigh up to 250 Kg and cows
up to 215 Kg, and have a life span of about 20 years.
Wildebeest are exclusively grazers and prefer growth less than 10 to 15 cm high.
Cows give birth to a single young in November and December after a gestation
period of 250 to 260 days and give birth for the first time at the age of 3 years.
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