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Unlike Cape buffalo bulls, African forest buffalo bulls remain with the herd continually, year round. On the other hand, Cape buffalo bulls stay in bachelor herds until the wet season, when young bulls join the females, mate, help protect the young calves and then leave. Animals usually remain in the same herd for their entire lives.
Skull of an African buffalo. The African buffalo is a very robust species. Its shoulder height can range from 1.0 to 1.7 m (3.3 to 5.6 ft) and its head-and-body length can range from 1.7 to 3.4 m (5.6 to 11.2 ft).
Battle at Kruger is an eight-minute amateur wildlife video that depicts a confrontation between a herd of Cape buffalo, a small group of young lions from a pride, and two crocodiles. [1] The video was shot in September 2004 at the Transport Dam watering hole in Kruger National Park , South Africa , during a safari guided by Frank Watts.
The catoblepas is described in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci: . It is found in Ethiopia near to the source Nigricapo. It is not a very large animal, is sluggish in all its parts, and its head is so large that it carries it with difficulty, in such wise that it always droops towards the ground; otherwise it would be a great pest to man, for any one on whom it fixes its eyes dies immediately.
Skull of Syncerus antiquus. Syncerus antiquus holds the distinction of being the largest bovid described from Africa. [3] According to Auguste Pomel, who was able to examine numerous fossils in Algeria, S. antiquus may have reached 3 metres (9.8 ft) in length from muzzle to the end of the tail, 1.85 metres (6.1 ft) in height at the withers, and 1.7 metres (5.6 ft) in height at the hindquarters.
Below is the listing of 'new' species recognized by Groves and Grubb (2011) [9] with vernacular names following Castelló (2016) from Bovids of the World: [2] Note other vernacular names have been used by others, and in practice all taxa are simply known as "Cape buffalo". Genus Syncerus (Hodgson, 1847) Syncerus nanus (Boddaert, 1785 ...
His daughter, Kick Kennedy, told Town and Country in 2012 that her father had cut off the whale's head with a chainsaw after he heard it washed up on Squaw Island. He bungee-corded it to the roof ...
The white-headed buffalo weaver is 170 to 190 mm (6.7–7.5 in) in length and 57 to 85 g (2.0–3.0 oz) in weight. [3] In addition to its white head and underparts, the white-headed buffalo weaver has a vividly orange-red rump and undertail coverts. [5] Its thighs are dark brown.