FMNH 21150

Credit: (c) Field Museum of Natural History
  • East African Buffalo
    Photographer: Carl E. Akeley
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Man holding specimen of East African Buffalo, also called Cape Buffalo. Syncerus caffer (young bull) by its horns in the field
  • Man and East African Buffalo
    Photographer: Carl E. Akeley
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Man holding specimen of East African Buffalo, also called Cape Buffalo. Syncerus caffer (young bull) by its horns in the field
FM Catalog: Mammals
Catalog Subset: Specimen
Scientific Name: Syncerus caffer caffer
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Genus: Syncerus
Species: caffer
Subspecies: caffer
Collector: C. E. Akeley
Collection No.: 361
Geography: Africa, Kenya, Coastal Prov, Tana River Dist, Tana River. [LL]
DWc Country: Kenya
Date Collected: 1906
Preparations: skin,skull,skel,mounted
Tissue Available?: No
Co-ordinates Available?: Yes
Sex: Male
Sex: Male
EMu IRN: 2520376
OccurenceID: 2f8f82f0-6785-4072-bbff-fdc5e3323d05
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