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The African forest buffalo is a small subspecies of the African buffalo. Cape buffaloes weigh 425 to 870 kg (937 to 1,918 lb), [4] whereas African forest buffaloes are much lighter, weighing in at 250 to 320 kg (550–705 lbs). [1]
The African buffalo ... Southern and East Africa. S. c. nanus (the forest buffalo, ... with a decreasing population of 400,000 individuals. While some populations ...
Its original range included much of the boreal forest regions of ... the water buffalo and the African buffalo. ... The herd currently has a total population around ...
The Pendjari National Park (French: Parc National de la Pendjari) lies in north-western Benin, adjoining the Arli National Park in Burkina Faso.Named for the Pendjari River, the national park is known for its wildlife and is home to some of the last populations of big game like the African forest elephant, lion, hippopotamus, African buffalo, and various antelopes in West Africa.
In 2011, Groves and Grubb recognised four of the subspecies of the African buffalo as independent species. These they argued, should be considered as separate species based on the phylogenetic species concept , which states that any population can be recognised as a species if a member is diagnosable as belonging to that population. [ 9 ]
Dzanga-Sangha Forest Reserve has one of the highest population densities of gorillas in the world, with an estimated 2000 of them living within the reserve's precincts. [6] Since the establishment of the reserve, it has been an important location for research into the western lowland gorillas [ 12 ] and forest elephants, in particular. [ 13 ]
Syncerus is a genus of African bovid that contains the living Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer), including the distinct African forest buffalo. At least one extinct species belongs to this genus; Syncerus acoelotus. [2] [3] The extinct giant African buffalo (Syncerus antiquus) is also included in this genus by many authorities. [4]
Although colloquially referred to as a buffalo in the United States and Canada, [2] it is only distantly related to the true buffalo. The North American species is composed of two subspecies, the Plains bison , B. b. bison , and the wood bison , B. b. athabascae , which is the namesake of Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada.