African buffalo
(Syncerus caffer)[] | |
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Species ID: | 3-4-31-4306-15228 |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Genus: | Syncerus |
Conservation status: | LC - Least Concern |
Systems: | Terrestrial |
Links: | IUCN Red List |
Subspecies[]
- S. c. aequinoctialis (Nile/Central African buffalo)
- S. c. brachyceros (Sudan/West African buffalo)
- S. c. caffer (Cape/Southern buffalo)
- S. c. mathewsi (Mountain/Virunga buffalo)
- S. c. nanus (African forest/dwarf/Congo buffalo)
Diet[]
- Grasses
Biomes[]
- Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
- Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
- Flooded grasslands and savannas
- Montane grasslands and shrublands
Locations[]

Ecoregion range
Ecozones[]
Ecoregions[]
- AT0101 Albertine Rift montane forests
- AT0102 Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests
- AT0104 Central Congolian lowland forests
- AT0107 Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests
- AT0108 East African montane forests
- AT0109 Eastern Arc forests
- AT0110 Eastern Congolian swamp forests
- AT0111 Eastern Guinean forests
- AT0114 Guinean montane forests
- AT0124 Northeastern Congolian lowland forests
- AT0125 Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
- AT0126 Northwestern Congolian lowland forests
- AT0129 Western Congolian swamp forests
- AT0130 Western Guinean lowland forests
- AT0701 Angolan Miombo woodlands
- AT0704 Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands
- AT0705 East Sudanian savanna
- AT0706 Eastern Miombo woodlands
- AT0707 Guinean forest-savanna mosaic
- AT0708 Itigi-Sumbu thicket
- AT0711 Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
- AT0712 Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
- AT0714 Serengeti volcanic grasslands
- AT0715 Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
- AT0716 Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
- AT0718 Southern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
- AT0719 Southern Miombo woodlands
- AT0721 Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic
- AT0722 West Sudanian savanna
- AT0723 Western Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
- AT0724 Western Zambezian grasslands
- AT0725 Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
- AT0726 Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
- AT0901 East African halophytics
- AT0905 Saharan flooded grasslands
- AT0906 Zambezian coastal flooded savanna
- AT0907 Zambezian flooded grasslands
- AT1002 Angolan Scarp savanna and woodlands
- AT1004 Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
- AT1012 Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets
- AT1013 Ruwenzori-Virunga montane moorlands
- AT1014 South Malawi montane forest-grassland mosaic
- AT1015 Southern Rift montane forest-grassland mosaic