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Adult male (behind) and adult female (in front), in Yellowstone National Park. In American English, both buffalo and bison are considered correct terms for the American bison. [16] However, in British English, the word buffalo is reserved for the African buffalo and water buffalo and not used for the bison. [17]
The name 'bison' was first used for the European species; ancient Greek authors Pausanias and Oppian in 2nd-century AD wrote about them in Greek as βίσων bisōn. [57] Roman authors Pliny the Elder and Gaius Julius Solinus used the word bĭson in Latin as well. [57] It was made into a genus name by Charles Hamilton Smith in 1827. [58]
Beefalo constitutes a hybrid offspring of domestic cattle (Bos taurus), usually a male in managed breeding programs, and the American bison (Bison bison), usually a female in managed breeding programs. [1] [2] The breed was created to combine the characteristics of both animals for beef production.
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners. [1]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 December 2024. Look up Buffalo, buffalo, buffaloe, buffaloes, or buffalos in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Buffalo most commonly refers to: True buffalo or Bubalina, a subtribe of wild cattle, including most "Old World" buffalo, such as water buffalo Bison, a genus of wild cattle, including the ...
On July 4, 2012, a white female buffalo calf named "Baby" was born on Steve and Carol Sarff's Countryside Buffalo Ranch in Avon, Minnesota. She died on July 20. [25] On May 7, 2016, a white buffalo mother gave birth to a white male buffalo calf at Sioux Valley Dakota Nation in Manitoba. [26] As of 2022, there are eight white buffalo in Sioux ...
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Male African buffalo with red-billed oxpecker, partly a symbiotic relationship and partly parasitic A pair of African buffalo resting inside Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. The African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a large sub-Saharan African bovine. [2] There are five subspecies that are recognized as valid by most authorities: