Editing Wildebeest (section)

=== Cultural depictions ===
The wildebeest is depicted on the [[coat of arms]] of the [[Natal Province|Province of Natal]] and later [[KwaZulu-Natal]] in South Africa. Over the years, the South African authorities have issued several stamps displaying the animal and the South African Mint has struck a two-cent piece with a prancing black wildebeest.<ref name=mammal>{{cite journal|last=von Richter|first=W.|title=Connochaetes gnou|journal=[[Mammalian Species]]|year=1974|issue=50|pages=1–6}}</ref>

Movies and television shows also feature wildebeests, including ''[[Khumba]]'' (Mama V), ''[[The Wild]]'' (Kazar and his minions), ''[[All Hail King Julien]]'' (Vigman Wildebeest), ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' (Newton the Gnu), ''[[The Great Space Coaster]]'' (newscaster Gary Gnu), and ''[[The Lion King]]'' (the wildebeest stampede that resulted in Mufasa's death).

[[Michael Flanders]] wrote a humorous song called "[[The Gnu]]", which was very popular when he performed it, with [[Donald Swann]], in a revue called ''[[At the Drop of a Hat]]'', which opened in London on 31 December 1956.

In the 1970s, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[tea]] brand [[Typhoo]] ran a series of [[television]] advertisements featuring an animated anthropomorphic gnu character.

[[File:Heckert_GNU_white.svg|thumb|The wildebeest is the mascot of the free software project [[GNU]].]]
The wildebeest is the mascot of the [[GNU Project]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/graphics/agnuhead.html|title=A GNU Head|access-date=15 July 2017|date=29 March 2015|publisher=[[GNU Project]]}}</ref> and [[GNU]] operating system.

In the ''Llama Llama'' picture-book series by [[Anna Dewdney]], an anthropomorphised wildebeest named Nelly Gnu is the main character, Llama Llama's best friend, and is also featured in a title of her own, ''Nelly Gnu and Daddy Too''.<ref name="nellygnu">{{Cite book|title=Amazon - ''Nelly Gnu and Daddy Too''|isbn = 978-0670012275|last1 = Dewdney|first1 = Anna|year = 2014| publisher=National Geographic Books}}</ref>

In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' series, Discworld analogues of wildebeests, which inhabited Howonderland, were called "bewilderbeest".