(1) In eastern Africa, they mostly hunt Thomson's gazelles, but they will also attack calves, warthogs, zebras, impalas, and the young of large antelopes such as the gnu .

(2) These people usually have a large, handsome predator in mind, a lion or a cheetah (the life of a gnu or an aardvark are rarely exalted).

(3) With his travelling companions he stood on a hill looking down on the savannah stretching to the far horizon, gigantic herds of gazelle, antelope, gnu , zebra, and warthog grazing and moving forwards like slow rivers.

(4) White-tailed gnus today live fenced into farm pastures and trapped in mostly small provincial game reserves.

(5) Every February, give or take a couple of weeks, more than a million wildebeest, or gnus , gather in the south-eastern quadrant of their quasi-circular migration route.