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Coloration ranges from fawn through brownish gray to chestnut.
A. buselaphus has prominent white patches on the hips and black on the forehead, muzzle, shoulders, and thighs. The genus is characterized by the rump being lower than the shoulders, a long head, slender legs, a tufted tail, and large, conspicuous glands below the eyes. The horns, borne by both sexes, unite or rise from a single pedicel, have heavy encircling rings, and are usually 450-700 mm long. Females have two mammae. The hartebeest inhabits dry savannahs and grasslands.