In the 1890s, an epizootic of the rinderpest virus struck all across Africa, but primarily in Eastern and Southern Africa. It was considered to be "the most devastating epidemic to hit southern Africa
Cattle dead from rinderpest in South Africa, 1896
The African buffalo is a large species of true buffalo native to Sub-Saharan Africa, where it is found in a number of disconnected ranges stretching from south-eastern Senegal through West and Central
African buffalo male with cattle egret
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Male African buffalo with red-billed oxpecker, partly a symbiotic relationship and partly parasitic
A pair of African buffalo resting inside Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania