The African forest buffalo (Syncerus caffer nanus), known also as the Dwarf or Congo buffalo, is the smallest subspecies of the African Buffalo. It is related to the Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer), Sudanese Buffalo (Syncerus caffer brachyceros) and Nile Buffalo (Syncerus caffer aequinoctialis). However, it is the only subspecies that occurs mainly in the rainforest of central and western Africa with an annual rainfall around 1,500 mm.
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African Forest Buffalo
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