Don’t confuse buffalos with landing strips!

You should think that most cattle birds never heard about this injunction. They use African Buffalos as landing strips and these big cows as as source of food while they remove the parasites from their skin.

African Buffalos (nearly) without birds

Buffle - Copyright 2008 Y.Roumazeilles
African Buffalo – Copyright 2008 Y.Roumazeilles
Buffle - Copyright 2008 Y.Roumazeilles
African Buffalo – Copyright 2008 Y.Roumazeilles

Buffalos and birds

Here, we see a fast airplane in final approach, or is it in attack phase?

Buffle et oiseaux - Copyright 2008 Y.Roumazeilles
African Buffal and birds: Tora! Tora! Tora! – Copyright 2008 Y.Roumazeilles

Finally, here the one I prefer (“the airport is not happy“) :

Buffle et oiseaux - Copyright 2008 Y.Roumazeilles
African Buffalo and birds – Copyright 2008 Y.Roumazeilles

African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer, Buffle d’Afrique, Búfalo negro). Kenya, Masai Mara, September 2008.


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