Wildebeest provide several useful animal products. The hide makes good quality leather and the flesh is coarse, dry and rather hard.[13] Wildebeest are killed for food, especially to make biltong in Southern Africa. This dried game meat is a delicacy and an important food item in Africa. The meat of females is more tender than that of males, and is the most tender during the autumn season. The wildebeest benefit the ecosystem by increasing soil fertility with their excreta.