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For the City of Buffalo, New York, click [[Buffalo, New York|here]].
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For an interesting quirk of the English language, click [[Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo. | here]].
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'''Buffalo''' is a term for several somewhat-related [[species]] of wild Asian and African cattle, including variants of the domesticated water buffalo.  The name has also been applied to the North American [[bison]] (''Bison bison'').  
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[[File:Bison-buffalo.jpg|thumbnail|400px|center|The [[North America]]n bison is the national mammal of the [[United States]].<ref>National Bison Legacy Act, Pub. L. 114-152, 130 Stat. 373 (approved May 9, 2016), § 3(a) ("The mammal commonly known as the 'North American bison' is adopted as the national mammal of the United States.")</ref>]]
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[[Image:bison.jpg|400px|thumb|right|North American bison]]
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[[Category:Ruminants]]
A term for several somewhat-related [[species]], cousins to the domestic [[cow]]; the most famous variant of buffalo are the North American Bison, which had reached dangerously low population levels due to over-hunting by the mid-Twentieth Century but which have since begun to slowly rebound.
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Latest revision as of 07:58, February 29, 2024

Buffalo
Cape buffalo with oxpeckers.jpg
Scientific classification
Kingdom Information
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Information
Phylum Chordata
Class Information
Class Mammalia
Order Information
Order Artiodactyla
Family Information
Family Bovidae
Sub-family Bovinae
Genus Information
Genus Syncerus
Bubalus
Species Information
Species S. caffer
B. bubalis
B. quarlesi
B. depressicornis
Population statistics

Buffalo is a term for several somewhat-related species of wild Asian and African cattle, including variants of the domesticated water buffalo. The name has also been applied to the North American bison (Bison bison).

The North American bison is the national mammal of the United States.[1]
  1. National Bison Legacy Act, Pub. L. 114-152, 130 Stat. 373 (approved May 9, 2016), § 3(a) ("The mammal commonly known as the 'North American bison' is adopted as the national mammal of the United States.")