The African buffalo is not an ancestor of domestic cattle and is only distantly related to other larger bovines. Its unpredictable temperament may have been part of the reason that the African buffalo has never been domesticated, unlike its Asian counterpart, the water buffalo. Natural predators of adult African buffaloes include lions, hyenas, and large crocodiles. As a member of the big five game, the Cape buffalo is a sought-after trophy in hunting.
Buffalo comes from tribe Bovids
In Tanzania we have 2 races of Bovids in Africa
1-Cape Buffalo
2- Forest Buffalo
Cape Buffalo are buffalo that found within Serengeti National Park and other National parks of Tanzania.
These are very hash animal and dangerous its just being said that never test the animal it will kill you.
How does Bulls Buffalo looks like different from cows one!
The Bulls are different from the cows due to there sexual reproductive organ and Their Horns
If You looking to the Bulls horns are bigger in size compare to cows
in outside apperance the cows are very
The buffalo has something we call inner typically is wild animal so even if will be treated as livestock cattle one day it going to change mainly cause that traits, instinct of wild is inner within their brain
Buffalo have their own of living they live in social bond family but unfortunately their moving together graze together and also sleep in one place
Do buffalo hunted
True they do hunted for meet purpose and skin for only decoration since its horns and other particular are not used lather than decoration
What are the buffalo weights
The buffalo’s weights are different from each
Females have weight of 650kg to 750kg this wait are more than domesticated cattle
Males have estimated weight of 800kg to 1200kg this is heavy as 1tone the bulls are very heavy since all of them are pure typically genes.
We have the other races that exist in forest of West Africa which called the forest buffalo their not that heavy compare to these of Tanzania. The buffalo are grazers on both tall grasses and short grasses and when the grasses are not there they feed or browse unselective plants.
The buffalo are highly gregarious in large mixed herd, very old bulls are tends to separate from the group why because it can’t go and scramble with others due to the reason that it is old and several time they got attack from their predators.
Does the herd have leader
True the senior bull is the one that leads the herd why because they have that respect to all of them
And it’s commonly known as Matriarch Cow. the buffalo herd breaks up into smaller unit during the dry season
There is reason on why the group is having good defense mechanism
The factor is Huge body size their very heavy to extent that if it happens it fall down under the predator that predator will die due to their body size
Huge horn size for fighting of their predators due to the reason they live together with their preys.
When will you realize that the bulls are in bad situation Its the time you realize that ut got the injury in any part of its body.
That Buffalo is more dangerous that even lion since it beleave that it has escape the danger of being killed.
Herd size is highly variable. The core of the herds is made up of related females, and their offspring, in an almost linear dominance hierarchy. The basic herds are surrounded by subherds of subordinate males, high-ranking males and females, and old or invalid animals.
African buffaloes engage in several types of group behavior. Females appear to exhibit a sort of "voting behavior". During resting time, the females stand up, shuffle around, and sit back down again. They sit in the direction they think they should move. After an hour of more shuffling, the females travel in the direction they decide. This decision is communal and not based on hierarchy or dominance.
When chased by predators, a herd sticks close together and makes it hard for the predators to pick off one member. Calves are gathered in the middle. A buffalo herd responds to the distress call of a threatened member and tries to rescue it. A calf's distress call gets the attention of not only the mother, but also the herd. Buffaloes engage in mobbing behavior when fighting off predators. They have been recorded killing lions and chasing lions up trees and keeping them there for two hours, after the lions have killed a member of their group. Lion cubs can get trampled and killed. In one videotaped instance, known as the Battle at Kruger, a calf survived an attack by both lions and a crocodile after intervention of the herd.
Males have a linear dominance hierarchy based on age and size. Since a buffalo is safer when a herd is larger, dominant bulls may rely on subordinate bulls and sometimes tolerate their copulation. The young males keep their distance from the dominant bull, which is recognizable by the thickness of his horns.
Bulls in position to spar
Adult bulls spar in play, dominance interactions, or actual fights. A bull approaches another, lowing, with his horns down, and waits for the other bull to do the same thing. When sparring, the bulls twist their horns from side to side. If the sparring is for play, the bull may rub his opponent's face and body during the sparring session. Actual fights are violent but rare and brief. Calves may also spar in play, but adult females rarely spar at all.
During the dry season, males split from the herd and form bachelor groups. Two types of bachelor herds occur: ones made of males aged four to seven years and those of males 12 years or older.[28] During the wet season, the younger bulls rejoin a herd to mate with the females. They stay with them throughout the season to protect the calves. Some older bulls cease to rejoin the herd, as they can no longer compete with the younger, more aggressive males. The old bachelors are called dagga boys ("mud covered"), and are considered the most dangerous to humans
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