African buffalo

African buffalo; Temporal range: 0.7–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Middle Pleistocene-Holocene
	An African buffalo at Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzanie.
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Faimily:	Bovidae
Subfaimily:	Bovinae
Genus:	Syncerus; Hodgson, 1847
Species:	S. caffer
Binomial name
	Syncerus caffer; (Sparrman, 1779)
Subspecies
	S. c. caffer; S. c. nanus; S. c. brachyceros; S. c. aequinoctialis; S. c. mathewsi

The African buffalo or Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a muckle African bovine.^[2] It is no closely relatit tae the slichtly mair muckle wild watter buffalo o Aisie an its ancestry remains unclear. Syncerus caffer caffer, the Cape buffalo, is the teepical subspecies, an the maist muckle ane, foond in Sooth an East Africae. S. c. nanus (African forest buffalo) is the smawest subspecies, common in forest auries o Central an Wast Africae, while S. c. brachyceros is in Wast Africae an S. c. aequinoctialis is in the savannas o Central Africae. The adult buffalo's horns are its chairacteristic featur; thay hae fused bases, fuirmin a conteenous bane shield athort the tap o the heid referred tae as a "boss". Thay are widely regairdit as vera dangerous ainimals, as thay gore an kill ower 200 fowk every year.

References

↑ IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group (2019). "Syncerus caffer". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T21251A50195031. Retrieved 24 Mey 2020.
↑ Grubb, P. (2005). "Order Artiodactyla". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 695–696. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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[iucn-1] IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group (2019). "Syncerus caffer". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T21251A50195031. Retrieved 24 Mey 2020.

[MSW3-2] Grubb, P. (2005). "Order Artiodactyla". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 695–696. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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