Cape Buffalo are huge animals. This pair was in the Murchison Falls game park in Uganda. To give you an idea of scale, the grass the are standing in is about 4 or 5 feet high!
Some people say they are the most dangerous animals in Africa. I think I just might agree. On at least one occasion we had these animals surround our SUV, and charge!
They are very defensive of their young. So a classic herd maneuver would be to surround the young in an outward facing circle. Then the males will attempt to drive off the attacker. In one case this was my wife! She was driving down the road and stopped to admire the herd of buffalo, only to see them begin to encircle her truck.
She says that is when she learned to drive fast in Africa.
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