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Buffalo - LoveToKnow 1911 (749 words) |
 | BUFFALO, a name properly pertaining to an aberrant species of cattle which has been kept in a state of domestication in India and Egypt from time immemorial, and had been introduced from the latter country into southern Europe. |
| In the Cape buffalo, Bos (Bubalus) caffer, the horns do not attain an excessive length, but in old bulls are so expanded and thickened at the base as to form a helmet-like mass protecting the whole forehead. |
| The haunts of the Indian buffalo are the grass-jungles near swamps, in which the grass exceeds 20 ft. in height. |
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African Buffalo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (393 words) |
| The African Buffalo or Cape Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a bovid from the family of the Bovidae. |
| The Cape Buffalo is not closely related to the Asian Water Buffalo, but its ancestry remains unclear. |
| Known as one of the "big five" in Africa, the Cape Buffalo can be a volatile and formidable beast, goring, trampling and killing several people a year. |
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