Syncerus caffer caffer (Sparrman, 1779)

This is not a water-buffalo.

Semi-captive - photographed on a privately owned game-range, in Lusaka, Zambia, in August 2011 using an Olympus E-420 DSLR with 40-150mm lens. 

As the nominate subspecies, it doesn't really need an adjective, and can just be called the Buffalo. Sorry, Americans, but Bison bison is clearly a bison, not a buffalo. 

As already stated, it is also not a water-buffalo. If you are so attached to your colloquial names for what was formerly the most numerous component of the Nearctic megafauna - a title now held by the cosmopolitan ape, Homo sapiens - then you may refer to this lovely creature as an African Buffalo or, if you are certain that it belongs to this particular (the nominate) subspecies, the Cape buffalo.

If you feel like avoiding the term buffalo altogether, you could call it:

Syncerus caffer caffer

(Sparrman, 1779)

 - Bovini  

- Bovinae 

- Bovidae   

- Pecora       

- Ruminantia  

- Cetruminantia

- Artiofabula      

- Cetartiodactyla  

- Ferungulata         

See also Hipposideros vittatus.

- Laurasiatheria        

- Boreoeutheria          

- Eutheria                     

- Theria                          

- Mammalia                     

- Cynodontia                     

- Theriodonta                      

- Therapsida                          

- Sphenocodontidae                

- Sphenocodontia                      

- Eupelycosauria                         

- Synapsida                                    

- Amniota                                         

See also Synchiropus splendidus, Thelotornis capensis, Trachylepis varia, Zootoca vivipara, Lygodactylus capensis, Troglodytes troglodytes, Chalcophaps indica, Ardea goliath, Sterna hirundo, Burhinus vermiculatus and Tockus alboterminatus.  

- Reptiliomorpha                                       

- Tetrapoda                                                  

See also Rana temporaria and Chiromantis xerampelina.

- Sarcopterygii                                                 

- Osteichthyes                                                   

- Teleostomi                                                         

- Gnathostomata                                                     

- Vertebrata                                                               

- Craniata                                                                    

- Chordata                                                                      

- Deuterostomia                                                                

- Nephrozoa                                                                          

See also Tettigonia viridissima, Stictogryllacris punctata, Heteropternis thoracica, Cyathosternum prehensile, Lobosceliana loboscelis, Humbe tenuicornis, Sibylla, Pephricus, Grypocoris stysi, Ranatra, Anoplocnemis curvipes, Hagenomyia tristis, Phyllobius pomaceus, Otiorhynchus atroapterus, Malachius bipustulatus, Oedemera noobilis, Cheilomenes lunata, Melolontha melolontha, Neojulodis vittipennis, Demetrias atricapillus, Anthia fornasiini, Synagris proserpina, Vespula germanica, Astata tropicalis, Andrena nigroaenea, Panorpa germanica, Chloromyia formosa, Senaspis haemorrhoa, Helophilus pendulus, Episyrphus balteatus, Diasemopsis meigenii, Metadon inermis,Dolichotachina caudata Megistocera filipes, Crambus pascuella, Zebronia phenice, Laelia robusta, Metisella willemi, Acada biseriata, Anthocharis cardamines, Sphinx ligustri, Rhyothemis semihyalina, Pseudagrion hageni, Enallagma cyathigerum , Lestinogomphus angustus, Ligia oceanica, Dicranopalpus ramosus, Hyllus argyrotoxus, Alopecosa barbipes, Enoplognatha ovata, Argiope bruennichi, Pardosa amentata.

- Bilateralia                                                                               

- Eumetazoa                                                                                

- Animalia                                                                                      

- Eukaryota                                                                                      

  

  

And that, folks, is all. 

This delightful pair were photographed at Parays game farm - like them on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Parays-Animal-Sanctuary/168769346520490