Meet Africa's BLACK DEATH!

The Cape Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is one of Africa's Big Five.
African Buffalo are also known as "Black Death" because of their reputation of being very dangerous. They kill over 200 people a year.
They are distributed from the high elevated forest to the open grasslands. They prefer to remain close to water sources as droughts have a devastating effect on their populations. Large herds use safety in numbers, as seen in the famous Battle at Kruger video here on You Tube. Males will also form smaller groups and protect the herds as they travel on the outskirts. Buffalo are hunted by trophy hunters due to their size and are taken by prides of lions. By allowing trophy hunting of the larger males, some argue it weakens the species as seen in recent reports regarding hunted wildlife. African buffalo populations are doing ok, but all wildlife need constant protection in order to keep on surviving for future generations.
Sometimes they are confused with the slightly larger and endangered water buffalo from Asia. Cape Buffalo are members of the Bovidae family which includes domestic cattle.
For more info:
http://www.awf.org/content/wildlife/detail/buffalo

Buffalos filmed at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy
http://www.lewa.org

And in the Masai Mara.

Thanks for reading.

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[wayneleon1000]

I still say that the most dangerous animals on earth are HUMAN BEINGS

[JesusDillinger]

@briczar22 So hunting causes poaching. False, even absurd. Do you even know anymore when your behavior strays into the underhanded? You have an agenda; that's human, but do try to be honest about it, at least with yourself.

[SUP3RZ0MB1E]

@wayneleon1000 Not if you take our tools away.

[Donagento]

thank for the clip ..... very cool work .......much fun and good luck .... Buffalo rock !!!

[ZOOmbieHolocaust]

No Metal ? :<

[usenetposts]

There was once this Greek bloke called Milo. he had a little one of these and he carried it for one lap around the field every day. As it grew, he could keep doing it, until finally he was carrying a 500 kilo cape buffalo male around the field. Until one day he caught a cold and couldn't do it for a week, and afterwards when he tried to resume it the buffalo gouged his intestines out and stamped on them.

[fishmanMarch61]

"...even ugly ones like the Cape Buffalo..."???

[GohsArt]

Once world was balanced , full of harmony and fair to all. Then human beings arised. After that world get more and more fucked up.

[briczar22]

@honestman43 Thank you, we may not agree totally with each other, but are willing to listen- too bad politicians don't always do the same. And obviously we both like the outdoors and want to preseve it.

[honestman43]

@briczar22 I agree with sharing with the community or projects.

Corruption is a big problem in S.A. Hunting has increased the number of rhino and lion. However, they should have to contribute a certain amount of money to the community and support restocking programs. They really have to tighten up on "fair chase" rules for hunting lion in S.A. as well. Thanks for the discussion.

[briczar22]

@honestman43 Never saw that figure before. As long as the lodges they support also support the local communites and conservation projects, and not just their own pockets.

There have been many artciles on this in African Geo-some expose the corruption of the industry in S.A. Right now I think a lot of people wish they had the actual rhinos and lions back that were sold as trophy's to be hunted since the money has seemed to do a little to help them, and we need their actual numbers up,.

[honestman43]

@briczar22 Eco tourism certainly has its place. So does hunting. The average hunter spends over 6x the money on safari.