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Given its unpredictable temper, the African buffalo is particularly difficult to tame and has never been domesticated like its relative, the Asian water buffalo. Additionally, these animals are considered to be extremely dangerous. They fiercely protect themselves and each other against predators and are known to move in to support another buffalo that is under attack by a lion or other predator. They are very courageous animals.
Curiosity getting the better of this female. So many of the animals I got close to made eye contact and held it. I was totally surprised by this. This buffalo was quite a distance away, so, she was just interested in my camera.
SÜDAFRIKA( South-Africa), Im Kruger-Nationalpark.
Der Kruger-Nationalpark (deutsch häufig falsch Krüger-Nationalpark, englisch Kruger National Park) ist das größte Wildschutzgebiet Südafrikas. Er liegt im Nordosten des Landes in der Landschaft des Lowveld auf dem Gebiet der Provinz Limpopo sowie des östlichen Abschnitts von Mpumalanga. Seine Fläche erstreckt sich vom Crocodile-River im Süden bis zum Limpopo, dem Grenzfluss zu Simbabwe, im Norden. Die Nord-Süd-Ausdehnung beträgt etwa 350 km, in Ost-West-Richtung ist der Park durchschnittlich 54 km breit und umfasst eine Fläche von rund 20.000 Quadratkilometern. Damit gehört er zu den größten Nationalparks in Afrika.
Das Schutzgebiet wurde am 26. März 1898 unter dem Präsidenten Paul Kruger als Sabie Game Reserve zum Schutz der Wildnis gegründet. 1926 erhielt das Gebiet den Status Nationalpark und wurde in seinen heutigen Namen umbenannt. Im Park leben 147 Säugetierarten inklusive der „Big Five“, außerdem etwa 507 Vogelarten und 114 Reptilienarten, 49 Fischarten und 34 Amphibienarten. Die traditionelle Aufzählung der „Großen Fünf“ Tierarten (Elefant, Nashorn, Büffel, Löwe, Leopard) bezog sich vor allem auf die Wünsche und Risiken der dazu angereisten Jäger.
SÜDAFRIKA( South-Africa), Im Kruger-Nationalpark.
Der Kruger-Nationalpark (deutsch häufig falsch Krüger-Nationalpark, englisch Kruger National Park) ist das größte Wildschutzgebiet Südafrikas. Er liegt im Nordosten des Landes in der Landschaft des Lowveld auf dem Gebiet der Provinz Limpopo sowie des östlichen Abschnitts von Mpumalanga. Seine Fläche erstreckt sich vom Crocodile-River im Süden bis zum Limpopo, dem Grenzfluss zu Simbabwe, im Norden. Die Nord-Süd-Ausdehnung beträgt etwa 350 km, in Ost-West-Richtung ist der Park durchschnittlich 54 km breit und umfasst eine Fläche von rund 20.000 Quadratkilometern. Damit gehört er zu den größten Nationalparks in Afrika.
Das Schutzgebiet wurde am 26. März 1898 unter dem Präsidenten Paul Kruger als Sabie Game Reserve zum Schutz der Wildnis gegründet. 1926 erhielt das Gebiet den Status Nationalpark und wurde in seinen heutigen Namen umbenannt. Im Park leben 147 Säugetierarten inklusive der „Big Five“, außerdem etwa 507 Vogelarten und 114 Reptilienarten, 49 Fischarten und 34 Amphibienarten. Die traditionelle Aufzählung der „Großen Fünf“ Tierarten (Elefant, Nashorn, Büffel, Löwe, Leopard) bezog sich vor allem auf die Wünsche und Risiken der dazu angereisten Jäger.
Nairobi National Park, kenya. This park is about 5 miles outside the city of Nairobi. It is filled with wild animals.
African buffalo or Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer). We were driving in the marshy area near the Sand River, tracking a black rhino (which we eventually got a glimpse of), when this big beauty popped up right next to us. Wow! Took my breath away for a moment. Sabi Sands, South Africa.Conservation status: Least Concern
African buffalo or Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) seen in Kirkman's Kamp, Sabi Sands, South Africa. Conservation status: Least Concern
African Buffalo or Cape Buffalo (syncerus caffer) is a large and powerful bovine, the African Buffalo reaches shoulder heights of up to 1.5 m and a mass of 750 kg. Both sexes have horns, those of the bulls are characterised by a heavy boss and upward curved horns. Buffalo herds can have significant ecological impact on the veld. Being a bulk grazer, they are responsible for converting long grasslands into short grassy environments conducive to other browsers with more selective feeding habits.
Kruger National Park is a South African National Park and one of the largest game reserves in Africa. It covers an area of 19,623 km2 in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in northeastern South Africa, and extends 360 km from north to south and 65 km from east to west.
South Africa, Kruger National Park
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The mud protects against the sun and helps against parasites..
African buffalo or Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) with red-billed oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa. Conservation status: Least Concern
Given its unpredictable temper, the African buffalo is particularly difficult to tame and has never been domesticated like its relative, the Asian water buffalo. Additionally, these animals are considered to be extremely dangerous. They fiercely protect themselves and each other against predators and are known to move in to support another buffalo that is under attack by a lion or other predator. They are very courageous animals.
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
African buffalo or Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) seen in Kirkman's Kamp, Sabi Sands, South Africa. Conservation status: Least Concern
Mala Mala Game Reserve
Near 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. 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
Mala Mala Game Reserve
Near 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. 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
Sabi Sabi Game Reserve
South Africa
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Cape Buffalo photographed in South Africa.
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
...not too friendly!
Because of their power and disposition, African buffalo are considered the most dangerous game species in Africa. Nonetheless, or perhaps because of their reputation, they have been heavily hunted for trophies and food. Unlike the Asian water buffalo, domestication attempts with this species have proven unsuccessful. One of the so-called 'Big Five'.
RKO_397. Close-up of the horns of a Cape buffalo! One of the most unpredictable animals while on safari!
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Kruger National Park
A fast moving Cape Buffalo herd stopping for a moment to pose for a group photo. Early morning, overcast and lots of dust! I tried to get in as many as possible :-)
Baboon - he is magnificent !
Most animals travel on the roads within the national parks, it is just easier to do so!
Game Drive Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
The Buffalo is one of the so called Big Five animals, an old hunter’s term given to the 5 most dangerous animals to hunt in Africa. In the buffalo’s case it is mainly due to their dangerous and cunning nature. They do not have very good eyesight but their hearing and smell is exceptional. There are many hunting tales that mention wounded buffaloes setting ambushes for hunters that follow them, by circling back on their own tracks, to stand and wait for the hunters that are tracking them. A number of hunters were injured or killed by buffaloes through the years while hunting them.
Masai Mara National Park
Kenya
East 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
Given its unpredictable temper, the African buffalo is particularly difficult to tame and has never been domesticated like its relative, the Asian water buffalo. Additionally, these animals are considered to be extremely dangerous. They fiercely protect themselves and each other against predators and are known to move in to support another buffalo that is under attack by a lion or other predator. They are very courageous animals.
Mala Mala Game Reserve
South Africa
Near Kruger National Park
A combination landscape and cape buffalo image.
After eating breakfast at the Londolozi Game Reserve, we proceeded to the Mala Mala Game Reserve. The first sight we saw was a herd of cape buffalo.
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".
Masai Mara National Park
Kenya
East 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
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
Just before sunset . It was a dry gusty afternoon with lots of dust around. The elephant initially didn't allow the buffalo to drink but eventually gave in. The same elephant was kept from drinking for a long time by an old elephant bull who occupied the water hole for himself for quite some time. It must be the dust and setting sun which give this image its special tones and atmosphere.
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Kruger National Park
Cape Buffalo, They don't look it but are considered by people who know, as extremely dangerous.
by the hundreds, never seen herds this large. They do not migrate out of the crater, due to water availability all year long.
When you stop and listen, they grunt as they are eating, so the savannah is quite loud with all those grunts!!
Mala Mala Game Reserve
South Africa
Image taken in the Mala Mala Game Reserve. Our first game drive at Mala Mala took us very close to a herd of about 200 cape buffalo. Our driver took us very close to the herd, and instead of becoming upset, the buffalo seemed very content to keep on grazing. This portrait is the cape buffalo closest to the jeep at the time. The driver however was ever vigil to get us out of there if the temperament of the buffalo ever changed.
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. 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
Londolozi Game Reserve
South Africa
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Another break from my live animal images, this Cape Buffalo skuIl image taken from a kneeling position on the ground holding the camera low during the morning hours around 10:00 am.
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
The buffaloes were approaching a waterhole under the watchful eye of an irritated elephant. The Ngwenyeni and Shicindzwaneni watercourses converge near the waterhole, not far from Shikumbu Hill with some of the oldest rocks on Earth.
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, and the largest one, found in Southern and East Africa. One of the "big five" African game, it is known as "the Black Death" or "the widowmaker", and is widely regarded as a very dangerous animal. According to some estimates, it gores, tramples and kills over 200 people every year.
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. African buffaloes have few non-human predators aside from lions and large crocodiles. As a member of the big five game, the Cape buffalo is a sought-after trophy in hunting.
Oxpeckers are endemic to the savanna of Sub-Saharan Africa. Their names come from their habit of perching on large mammals and eating ticks, botfly larvae, and other parasites. They feed exclusively on the backs of large mammals. Certain species seem preferred, whereas others, like the Lichtenstein's hartebeest or topi are generally avoided. The smallest regularly used species is the impala, probably because of the heavy tick load and social nature of that species. In many parts of their range they now feed on cattle, but avoid camels. They feed on ectoparasites, particularly ticks, as well as insects infecting wounds and the flesh and blood of some wounds as well.
Oxpecker/mammal interactions are the subject of some debate and ongoing research. They were originally thought to be an example of mutualism, but recent evidence suggests that oxpeckers may be parasites instead. Oxpeckers do eat ticks, but often the ticks that have already fed on the ungulate host and there has been no proven statistically significant link between oxpecker presence and reduced ectoparasite load. However one study of impalas found that impalas which were used by oxpeckers spent less time grooming themselves suggesting they had fewer parasites. Oxpeckers have been seen opening new wounds and worsening existing ones in order to drink the blood of their perches. Oxpeckers also feed on the earwax and dandruffs of mammals, although less is known about the benefits of this to the mammal, it is suspected that this is also a parasitic behaviour. Some oxpecker hosts are intolerant of their presence. Elephants and some antelope will actively dislodge the oxpeckers when they land. Other species tolerate oxpeckers while they search for ticks on the face, what one author described as "appear[ing] ... to be an uncomfortable and invasive process."