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Often the Cape Buffalo is imagined as large herds crossing the savannah. While that is an impressive sight, when you stop and zoom in on a individual, you start to get a sense of what these animals are actually about. In this case, we were on a road waiting for a moderate sized herd to cross when they all decided to stop and stare at us. Maybe it was curiosity, maybe it was territoriality, or maybe it was our heavy jeep they were eyeing as the intruder.
Regardless, in this portrait, you get sense of the mud, the grass, and the dust that these animals were used to. This individual has bits of grass hanging from his horn and caked on mud on his face and legs. It tells a tale of slogging through soft ground to find vegetation to eat and of scratching and grooming against trees in everyday life.
IUCN STATUS: Near Threatened
