#0241 · 🦊 mammals

African Buffalo

🇳🇱 Afrikaanse buffel ·Syncerus caffer

NTnear threatened 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The African buffalo or Cape buffalo ( Syncerus caffer ) is a large African bovine. It is not closely related to the slightly larger wild water buffalo of Asia and its ancestry remains unclear. Syncerus caffer caffer , the Cape buffalo, is the typical subspecies, and the largest one, found in South and East Africa. S. c. nanus (African forest buffalo) is the smallest subspecies, common in forest areas of Central and West Africa, while S. c. brachyceros is...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 16,187iNaturalist observations
threat NTnear threatened

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
16,187 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Anders Sparrman in 1779 (247 years ago).