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  • noun A large African bovid, Syncerus caffer.

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  • noun large often savage buffalo of southern Africa having upward-curving horns; mostly in game reserves

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Examples

  • 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 Carl Pope 2011

  • We did see elephants and zebras, gigantic herds of Cape buffalo, and we saw…the sausage tree.

    Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

  • We did see elephants and zebras, gigantic herds of Cape buffalo, and we saw…the sausage tree.

    Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

  • We did see elephants and zebras, gigantic herds of Cape buffalo, and we saw…the sausage tree.

    Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

  • We did see elephants and zebras, gigantic herds of Cape buffalo, and we saw…the sausage tree.

    Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

  • 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 Caitlin O'Connell 2007

  • 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 Caitlin O'Connell 2007

  • 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" Various

  • They differ greatly from the Cape buffalo, to be met with further south.

    In the Wilds of Africa William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • 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 Jim Calio 2012

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