Well, when settlers first visited the new world and witnessed bison, they thought they looked like the Cape buffalo and water ...

The American bison is an incredibly interesting critter. Sometimes called buffalo, this name is a misnomer and suggests that the American bison is somehow related to the buffalo of the Old World.

Three large mammals in the world are commonly called “buffalo,” though each of them represents a different species. All of these are distantly related under the same family, Bovidae.

Buffalo and bison aren’t the same animals ... savannas to lowland rainforests—as long as they’re close to a water source. The ungulates are found starting in southwest Ethiopia and through ...

The Tanka Fund has been working over the past decade to return buffalo to native ancestral lands helping to revitalize ...

but apparently that's water bison, not water buffalo." According to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, 99 per cent of fen habitat in the UK has been lost through agricultural drainage works.