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Also Known As African buffalo • Syncerus caffer caffer

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Cape buffalo
Cape, or African, buffalo (Syncerus caffer) with cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) on its back.
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Lion (panthera leo)
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Buffalo Bill. William Frederick Cody. Circus poster, I am coming, Col. W.F. Cody. Portrait of Buffalo Bill (1846-1917) on stampeding bison (buffalo). Folk hero of the American West. Chromolithograph, c1900
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vulture. An adult bearded vulture at a raptor recovery center. The Gypaetus barbatus also known as the Lammergeier or Lammergeyer, is a bird of prey and considered an Old World vulture.
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