Buffaloes (Syncerus caffer) at Kruger National Park

Ok, so those are clearly not the buffaloes I usually blog about (the Bison bison) these are the African buffaloes.

After a mud bath this guy is scratching himself against the tree.

 ...and quite the mud bath it was.

This fellow has lost his tail.... must have been quite the scare!

You see them alone, in small group but also in large herd, this one was on the plane by Satara camp.

On my last morning as I was driving out of the park I was :held hostage" for twenty minutes by that small herd. I was eventually "freed" by a big work trcuk who drove slowly through them.

it isn't that they hadn't seen me.