{"id":28501,"date":"2024-12-06T10:34:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T05:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28501"},"modified":"2025-04-08T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:18:10","slug":"cape-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/cape-buffalo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Cape buffalo:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The African or Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a formidable and aggressive species.<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the four subspecies of African Buffalo found south of the Sahara, the others being the forest buffalo, the West African Savanna Buffalo and the Central African Savanna Buffalo.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Appearance<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Compared with other large bovids, African buffalo have <strong>long but stocky bodies<\/strong> and short but thickset legs, resulting in a relatively short standing height.<\/li>\n<li>The adult buffalo&#8217;s <strong>horns are its characteristic feature<\/strong>: they have fused bases, forming a continuous bone shield across the top of the head referred to as a &#8220;boss&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong> They live in <strong>swamps and floodplains<\/strong>, as well as mopane grasslands, and the forests of the major mountains of Africa.<\/li>\n<li>They prefer a habitat with dense cover, such as reeds and thickets, but can also be found in open woodland, montane grasslands, and forest, savannas, and moist lowland rainforests.<\/li>\n<li>African buffalo may be <strong>active throughout the day and night<\/strong>. They are social and live in herds that consist of related females, and their offspring, in an almost linear dominance hierarchy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong> The Cape Buffalo is found across the <strong>savannas of east and southern Africa.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Diet:<\/strong> African buffalo have a strictly herbivorous (graminivorous, folivorous) diet. They feed on a wide variety of grasses, sedges, leaves, and other plants.<\/li>\n<li>These massive animals <strong>are also excellent swimmers<\/strong> and often cross rivers in search of better grazing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>IUCN: Near Threatened<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Savannas?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a vegetation type that grows under hot, seasonally dry climatic conditions and is characterized by an open tree canopy above a continuous tall grass understory (the vegetation layer between the forest canopy and the ground).<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/africa\/ngorongoro-study-offers-insights-into-why-humans-cape-buffalo-are-coming-into-conflict-in-africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ngorongoro study offers insights into why humans &amp; Cape buffalo are coming into conflict in Africa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape buffalo is a formidable and aggressive species  found across the savannas of east and southern Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}