Bodacious Baby Buffaloes
The world over, there are lots of different species of buffalo. What do they all have in common? Well for one, they are are large, land dwelling mammals who like to live in plains (though some have been known to live in forests, like those in Africa). North American “buffaloes” are actually classified as “bison”. All buffalo are herbivores and all buffalo travel in groups called herds. The males of every species of buffalo have big horns to help them in fights to establish who the leader of the herd is, and to defend their herd against would-be predators. One last thing they have in common? All buffalo babies are totally cute and adorable!
At first blush, you might mistake a buffalo baby for a cow, or another similar species of bovine, but actually buffalo are only very distantly related to modern domesticated cattle, like you might see on a farm – they are not the ancestors of modern cows, like some people have mistakenly thought in the past. Of course, no matter what species you’re talking about, baby animals are always cute and fun to look at (well, almost always, there are some –> uglies).
