Buffalo
Common name : Cape, or African, Buffalo
Afrikaans name : Buffel
Scientific name : (Syncerus caffer)

Weight :  bulls weigh up to about 900 kg. 
Height :  Adults standi p to 1.5 m at the shoulder.
Horns : curve downward, then up and inward forming large bosses at their bases. A subspecies of Cape buffalo found in dense West African forests is smaller, reddish brown, and has shorter horns.
Regions :Indigenous to all of Africa south of the Sahara, a gregarious animal of open or scrub-covered plains and open forests. 
Young : The cow bears a single young (11 months' gestation.) 
Maximum speeds : 56 kmph (35 mph)

Buffalo are ungulates who often move in very large herds of more than over 400. Bachelor herds of four to five or solitary ones who live alone do not mix with the herd. During the dry season they are prey to lion. They  bath in  mud pools to rid themselves of parasites and as a barrier against insect attacks. Never domesticated, the Cape buffalo is one of the most dangerous animals.