Class Mammalia
Phylum Chordata,
subphylum Vertebrata
Order Artiodactyla,
Family Bovidae.
Shoulder height -
1.5 - 1.65 (male) 1.35 - 1.50m (female)
Adult weight - 420 - 870 kg (male) 570 (female)
Age at sexual maturity -Male 8 years - female 5 years
Diet - mainly grass but they also browse leaves, small twigs
and young shoots. They prefer feeding in the coll and have the most
efficient digestive system of any herbivore.
Hearing - good
Sight - excellent
Smell - excellent
Sound - grunts and bellows
Preditors- Lions and hyenas
Mating season - During the rains - peaking in february/March
Gestation period - 11 months
No of young - 1
A species of short-haired African ungulate, or hoofed mammal, Syncerus caffer.
The cape, or African, buffalo may reach 7 ft (2.1 m) in length, weigh more than 1,500 lb (670 kg), and reach a height of 5 ft (1.5 m) at the shoulder. Coat color and horn shape seem to vary with the animal's habitat, which ranges from high grass savanna to equatorial forest.
Cape buffalo gather in herds of up to a thousand animals; they graze and drink in the early morning and evening and rest during the heat of midday and at night.
They are aggressive and powerfully built, and can easily fend off the attack of a lion.
They mate in January or February; after a gestation period of 11 months the cow gives birth to a single calf.
Its life span is about 16 years.
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Buffalo Prints
Buffalo
Dung
30 cm wide
