Syncerus caffer - #1593
African Buffalo
Old adult male ("dugaboy"), side view of horns and boss. Syncerus caffer caffer. Also as Cape Buffalo|Southern Savanna Buffalo.
Geographic Distribution
Rain forest and savanna of Angola, Benin, N and E Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, S Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea (Mbini; extinct on Bioko), N Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia (extinct), Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, S Mali, Mozambique, NE Namibia (Caprivi Strip), SW Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, S Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Order/Family
Bovidae
Genus
Syncerus
Specific Epithet
caffer
Image Location
Kenya, Taita-Taveta county (former Coast province) Tsavo Ranches
Image Date
December 9, 2002
Photographer
BD Patterson