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Cape Buffalo


Cape Buffalo
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Copyright: Nick Acutt (nick27) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 73 W: 10 N: 141] (516)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-10-23
Categories: Mammals
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ50, Kenko 55mm UV filter
Exposure: f/10.0, 1/250 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-01-07 2:09
Viewed: 571
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The African Buffalo or Cape Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a bovid from the family of the Bovidae. It is up to 1.7 meters high, 3.4 meters long. Savannah type buffaloes weigh 500-900 kg, with only males, normally larger than females, reaching the upper weight range. Forest type buffaloes are only half that size.[1]The African Buffalo is not closely related to the slightly larger Wild Asian Water Buffalo, but its ancestry remains unclear.[2] Owing to its unpredictable nature which makes it highly dangerous to humans, it has not been domesticated, unlike its Asian counterpart, the Domestic Asian Water Buffalo

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Nick :-)
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  • cako Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 353 W: 0 N: 316] (1777)
  • [2008-01-07 3:14]

Hi Nick
This is very good shot, nice composition,
well done.

Hello Nick great subject I think I would have tried not to crop the feet also the sun was in a difficult position shadowing a lot of the animal. tfs best rgds Necip.

Hi NIck,
IMpressionnant, un peu à contre jour mais superbe.
Bravo
Marie

Hi Nick,
This buffalo is full of muscle. It is certainly a dangerous animal to humans. You have a nice pov. I would like to see the buffalo feet in the frame. TFS,
JC

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