Black wildebeest

The tail settles it: a black wildebeest has a long, horse-like tail that is bright white, where a blue wildebeest's is black. The coat is chocolate brown to black, short and glossy in summer and shaggier in winter, with brush-like tufts of dark hair on the face, a beard running down the neck to the chest, and a pale patch on the nape under a dark-tipped mane. Both sexes carry hook-like horns that curve down, forward and then up. This is a South African animal of grassland and arid shrubland, and today it lives on reserves and game farms rather than truly wild, so expect it on South African trips, not in East Africa.