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- noun Plural form of
hartebeest .
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Before the 20th century the region was home to several different species of gazelle, wild asses, hartebeests, oryxes, ibexes, dorcas and onagers.
Mysterious Desert Lines Found To Be Animal Traps | Impact Lab 2010
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Other animals under threat include Thompson gazelles, Grant gazelles, impalas, hartebeests, ostriches, warthogs and waterbucks.
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According to a 1994 census, more than 30,000 elephants and more than 20,000 hartebeests are known from this protected area.
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At one moment they would pass a group of giraffe, running in their ungainly fashion to one side; hartebeests, impalla and other varieties of antelope were everywhere, gazing in fearless fashion at the train.
The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series Elliott Whitney
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"I turned off the road," he continues, "in pursuit of a troop of brindled gnoos, and presently came upon another, which was followed by a third still larger -- then by a vast herd of zebras, and again by more gnoos, with sassaybys and hartebeests pouring down from every quarter, until the landscape literally presented the appearance of a moving mass of game."
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 Louis Creswicke
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Horns of bles-boks, spring-boks, water-boks, rooi-boks, koodoos, elands, hartebeests and gnus ornament the walls, in company with those of the native buffalo and the wide-reaching horns of the Cape oxen, of which fourteen or sixteen yoke are sometimes hitched to the ponderous Dutch wagons.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
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Ungainly hartebeests, and topi whose skins had the sheen of satin, ran with smooth speed.
VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant 1916
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Bands of hartebeests and of showy zebras, joined by grotesquely capering wildebeests and by lovely, long-horned gazelles, stood round in a wide, irregular ring, to see their two foes fight to the death.
VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant 1916
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There was only a large herd of hartebeests grazing on the plains below.
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Here and there throughout the plains scattered herds of zebra, hartebeests, and gazelles grazed in peace.
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