Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Why is it called a gnu when it looks recycled?

Wildebeest (also called gnu, pronounced new) are the strangest looking creatures ever. They look like they were cobbled together with the spare parts of other animals. They have a cow head (including the moo), a zebra neck (though the stripes aren't so distinct), a goats beard, a horses tail and mane, a camels hump, and an asses ass.

The other cool thing about the wildebeest is that there are just so many of them. I can't tell you how many times I exclaimed "holy chickens batman, that's all wildebeest." Sometimes you can see a line of them walking stretching to the horizon (which on the Serengeti is a long long way), other times they were just peppered across the savanna as far as they eye could see.

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