African buffalo

Appearance
The buffalo has unmistakenly features. It's heavily built with strong limbs, rather short neck and a broad muzzle. There are great variability in size of the animal depending on their habitat, with weights from 350 up to 900kg. The horns are heavy with a massive base. Females are similar to males but with less developed horns.

Habits
The buffalo lives in a wide range of habitats from the dense forest to the open plains, also in mountain areas. They never lives far from water. On open plains they are very gregarious and lives in herds with up to 2000 heads. The herd are dominated by a master bull and lead by a old female. Old bulls and wounded animals sometime lives solitary or forms small groups. Though they have a bad reputation, they are usually very silent and placid animals. But indeed, they could be really dangerous if cornered or wounded.

They are mostly nocturnal, hiding in dense vegetation during the day. They are primarily grazers, feeding on grass but also browse on leaves and shoots. Water is essential to them as they have to drink every day.