Resting Cape Buffalo And Visiting Oxpeckers (Syncerus caffer caffer)

            Kruger National Park
South Africa

The African buffalo or Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a large Sub-Saharan African bovine. Syncerus caffer caffer, the Cape buffalo, is the typical subspecies found in South and East Africa. The adult buffalo's horns are its characteristic feature: they have fused bases, forming a continuous bone shield across the top of the head referred to as a "boss".

Cape Buffalo are suspected to kill around 200 people every year. They typically will charge and gore their victims and have been known to trample people as well. When you see Cape Buffalo roaming in Africa, they're usually not alone and an injured cape buffalo is even more dangerous and unpredictable than a healthy one. 

Weighing in at over 1500 lbs, even most lions don't dare bother hunting this aggressive beast unless the lions are in a huge pride. – Wikipedia

Taken in: South Africa / Mpumalanga / Bushbuckridge / Inyati (show map)

Taken on: September 18, 2011

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South Africa 2011

Kruger National Park

Cape Buffalo

Syncerus caffer caffer

Usually in Herds

Kill Around 200 People a Year

Weigh around 1500 lbs

Aggressive

Herbivore

Grazing

Large Bovine

Never Been Domesticated

Susan Roehl

Pentax K200D

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