Blue wildebeest Temporal range: 1?0  Ma Pre? ? O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Middle Pleistocene ? present
C. t. albojubatus In the Ngorongoro Crater , Tanzania
Conservation status
Least Concern  ( IUCN 3.1 ) [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Alcelaphinae
Genus:	Connochaetes
Species:	C. taurinus
Binomial name
Connochaetes taurinus ( Burchell , 1823)
Subspecies
C. t. albojubatus (Thomas, 1912) C. t. cooksoni (Blaine, 1914) C. t. johnstoni ( Sclater , 1896) C. t. mearnsi ( Heller , 1913) C. t. taurinus (Burchell, 1823)
Distribution of the subspecies:     C. t. taurinus     C. t. cooksoni     C. t. johnstoni     C. t. albojubatus     C. t. mearnsi

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

The blue wildebeest is known to have five subspecies . Young blue wildebeest are born tawny brown, and begin to have their adult coloration at the age of 2 months.

Both sexes have a pair of large curved horns . The blue wildebeest is a herbivore , feeding mainly on short grasses.

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