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Giraffes, hyenas and baboons abounded, along with now extinct giant horses and hartebeests and buffalo with 13-ft. horn spans.

From Time Magazine Archive

When an infected tsetse bites a man, it injects into his bloodstream protozoa known as trypanosomes, which�for the tsetse is omnivampiverous�it may have picked up from the blood of alligators, hippopotamuses, hartebeests, etc.

From Time Magazine Archive

Driven by drought, a procession of game in stretched, incredible battalions passes the tents on the Serengetti plains—first zebras, then hartebeests, buck, cheetahs, gazelles, giraffes, rhinos, wild dogs, all superbly photographed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The camera faithfully recorded the doings of elephants, giraffes, zebras, hartebeests, gnus, antelopes of several species, wart-hogs and baboons.

From The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations by Hornaday, William Temple

Antelope and wildebeests, zebra and hartebeests, there seems no end to them in this sportsman's paradise.

From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Dolbey, Robert Valentine