By the late nineteenth century, the scientific name bison (which ... around the Cape of Africa and experiences in Asia. So, they knew about African buffalo. And, the American animal seemed to ...

The Cape buffalo is 11 feet long but usually weighs ... Though we will mainly focus on the American Bison and the African ...

Although the clashing horns may look menacing to us, when African buffalo bulls fight, it’s usually a friendly sparring match ...

Cape buffalo, one of four distinct subspecies ... How the misnomer came to be is murky, but it’s thought early American settlers called bison “buffalo” because they look similar—large ...

And, of course, is it “Bison” or “Buffalo”? We asked authors, historians and professors to weigh in on some of the bigger questions from The American Buffalo.