GNU

gnu, the hottentot name for the large white-tailed south african antelope (q.v.), now nearly extinct, know to the boers as the black wildebeest, and to naturalists as connochaetes (or catoblepas) gnu. a second and larger species is the brindled gnu or blue wildebeest (_c. taurinus_ or _catoblepas gorgon_), also known by the bechuana name _kokon_ or _kokoon_; and there are several east african forms more or less closely related to the latter which have received distinct names. [illustration: white-tailed gnu, or black wildebeest (_connochaetes gnu_).]