Huge Buffalo video from Uganda

[Zinz]

This posted on the Coenraad Vermaak YouTube channel. Video from the Kidepo National Park in Northern Uganda. There are 4 or 5 scrum cap bulls, some super wide bulls, a huge bull ele. Magnificent animals...

Ed Z

 

[Sideshow]

Thanks for posting that! Yep Uganda is one special place!

 

[Tex .416]

This posted on the Coenraad Vermaak YouTube channel. Video from the Kidepo National Park in Northern Uganda. There are 4 or 5 scrum cap bulls, some super wide bulls, a huge bull ele. Magnificent animals...

Ed Z

Quite majestic.

Personally, animals that are truly exceptional like that should be allowed to walk and spread the genetics. Pound hard on the low end.

Thanks for sharing the video.

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

Quite majestic.

Personally, animals that are truly exceptional like that should be allowed to walk and spread the genetics. Pound hard on the low end.

Thanks for sharing the video.

Agreed if they’re still breeding.

 

[Tundra Tiger]

Well made video - nice.

Seems to me a better name might have been short-maned zebra.

And is it just me? That scrum cap at the 1:13 mark looked HUMONGOUS (body).

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

Great video, thanks for posting!

 

[cajunchefray]

Truly “The Pearl of Africa “ Henry Morton Stanley, later quoted by Winston Churchill, 1908.
Awesome video.

 

[375Fox]

Well made video - nice.

Seems to me a better name might have been short-maned zebra.

And is it just me? That scrum cap at the 1:13 mark looked HUMONGOUS (body).

It’s called a Sudan maneless zebra. It’s a unique subspecies.

 

[Tundra Tiger]

It’s called a Sudan maneless zebra. It’s a unique subspecies.

I saw that. But when they showed that herd, several had sort bristly hair, so seems like short-maned might have been more accurate.

 

[Russ16]

From watching videos ir seems that Uganda has an unusually high percentage if scrum cap bulls. Does anyone know why?

Regardless I want to go there some day.

 

[375Fox]

From watching videos ir seems that Uganda has an unusually high percentage if scrum cap bulls. Does anyone know why?

Regardless I want to go there some day.

I think it would be a function of large numbers of buffalo, the right age class, and high visibility. I don’t know the percentages elsewhere but do know I just finished a buffalo hunt without ever seeing an entire buffalo due to thick brush. I also wonder what the lion population there is? They have a big effect on old bulls elsewhere.

 

[Tex .416]

What is the light colored tan buff at 2:50? I’ve not seen that before.

 

[375Fox]

What is the light colored tan buff at 2:50? I’ve not seen that before.

West/Central African savanna buffalo genetics. I was watching a different video of hunting buffalo in Uganda and PH explained it was the meeting point of cape, Nile, savanna buffalo genetics and could be seen easiest in coloration of calves.

 

[OneGearhead]

I just watched this video this morning while scrolling Youtube. He is a monster. Magnificent bull.