NOUN
- large often savage buffalo of southern Africa having upward-curving horns; mostly in game reserves
How To Use Cape buffalo In A Sentence
- Venator had walked the veldt among lions and Cape buffalo, scaled a glacier, shot rapids, disarmed more than one dement gone violent. The Stars Are Also Fire
- Drought also took most of the Il Ngwesi Maasai's cattle -- as well as virtually all of their region's population of Cape buffalo -- herds that will, over time, be rebuilt -- unless drought comes more often, as climate change means it will. Carl Pope: Learning from Africa
- We had come from Kruger National Park, where Tim was finishing his dissertation on tuberculosis in the Cape buffalo and I was writing up our elephant/human conflict study. The Elephant's Secret Sense
- Cape buffalo prefer areas of open pasture, close to jungle and swampy ground where they can wallow.
- The goal with professional hunter Gordon Duncan of Shangaan Hunters in Zimbabwe was to bag a Cape buffalo.
- In the Cape buffalo, _Bos (Bubalus) caffer_, the horns do not attain an excessive length, but in old bulls are so expanded and thickened at the base as to form a helmet-like mass protecting the whole forehead. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
- In addition to bison, Bovini include the African Cape buffalo, the wild Indian buffalo, the domesticated water buffalo, the dwarf water buffalo (also know as the anoa or Celebes ox), the tamarau of the Philippines, and all true cattle.
- It depicts a massive Cape buffalo quartering through low scrub and staring at the viewer.
- The park that is the home for the Big Five Animals i.e. lions, elephants, leopards, black rhinos and Cape buffalo, is supposed to be the largest wildlife park in the world today.
- We came across a herd of Cape buffalo grazing in a field, their eyes glassy when hit by the spotlight. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
