I stumbled across this photo this morning, of a Buffalo with the most incredible bosses I've ever seen!! I thought you fellas would enjoy this....

(I have no information as to the origins of this photo)

YIKES!!!!

Masailand

Wow!

That's the stuff dreams are made of!

That headgear is so impressive, it makes his body size look dwarfed. I'd like to do him a favor and put him out of his misery, that's gotta be a chore to carry around.

That buff is wearing someone elses horns by the look of it.
Face looks too young to have grown a set like that.

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Originally posted by Hunting the Box H:
That buff is wearing someone elses horns by the look of it.
Face looks too young to have grown a set like that.

I reckon you are about right there, a little bit of photo shop. If he is real, sic him onto that Di Caprio dweeb!

Just wet my pants.

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Originally posted by Hunting the Box H:
That buff is wearing someone elses horns by the look of it.
Face looks too young to have grown a set like that.

We have a bunch of cows somewhere around that he is more than welcome to have is way with!!!!!!!!!

Stud!

Talk about well endowed!

PhotoChop

Right out of my dreams. On 3 or 4 different occassions I have had a dream where there are 3 massive bulls running right to left roughly 20 yards out and I can't get the damn safety off the trigger will not move, and there they go gone forever.

Yes that sure looks real.

something ain't right

Photoshop of existing WR horns on a smaller animal - good try!

Do you suppose my grand daughter could enter him the state fair 4H program?
Maybe we could could Obama to try milking his sister?

Jim

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Originally posted by fujotupu:
Photoshop of existing WR horns on a smaller animal - good try!

If that is, in fact, the case....I want to make perfectly clear that it was NOT me that did it.

It was posted on a Facebook group called "Game Animals of the Past and Present"

https://www.facebook.com/game.animals

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Originally posted by Hunting the Box H:
That buff is wearing someone elses horns by the look of it.
Face looks too young to have grown a set like that.

So it is a Phot Shop job?
Hans

Pretty certain that has got to be photoshop. If you look at the angle of his head vs the angle of the horns they aren't quite square to each other. It also appears that some vegitation thta was tucked under the horn wasn't edited out of one of the photos entirely.

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Originally posted by Late-Bloomer:
PhotoChop

Say it ain't so. Next your going to try to tell me the girls in playboy realy don't look like that.

JD

I like the one in the back much better

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Originally posted by J D:

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Originally posted by Late-Bloomer:
PhotoChop

Say it ain't so. Next your going to try to tell me the girls in playboy realy don't look like that.JD

Yup, more than likely titivated a bit!

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Originally posted by Scriptus:

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Originally posted by J D:

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Originally posted by Late-Bloomer:
PhotoChop

Say it ain't so. Next your going to try to tell me the girls in playboy realy don't look like that.JD

Yup, more than likely titivated a bit!

To me the picture IS NOT photoshopped. That appears to be a pic from the Aberdares in Kenya and I might have seen this pic before, though not such a clear one as this.

i'll try dig it out....

Mich:

The genetics (horns) on that buffalo are very typical of the L. Manyara variety - I was not aware that species from the Aberdares or any other mountain range for that matter, produced horns with that kind of configuration.
However, the horn to skull proportions in the picture, IMO are way out.

Pompadour

Fujo,
I agree that Manyara has buff with that boss configuration. I have seen the same in Maswa. However, the salt lick/mud wallow in the pic and the background vegetation is typical of the mountain ranges of the Aberdares and Mt Kenya. The only other place I know of in Tz where such a pic could have been taken is the Ngorongoro?

The below is the not so clear pic of the same buff i referred to earlier. It appears at 1st glance, a replica of the same photo but if you note the angle of the buff is different in this image (and no cow behind him). It still has the "shrub" stuck between its boss and right ear so it is the same buff.



I believe that it is not a photoshopped image.

I found another pic (small res0 of the same buff from another angle - too many pics of the same animal to have been photoshopped??
I've been wrong before!

Mich:

You are right

Must be due to genetic mutation, similar to the female of the species which appears on:

http://rhinoark.wildlifedirect...lo-caught-on-camera/

so what do you photoshop nay sayers san NOW?????

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Originally posted by DTala:
so what do you photoshop nay sayers san NOW?????

I walk with dragging feet and bowed head ...Quack Quack.

Bwanamich, your photos look "right." Elandslayer's one looks too much like an inebriated elderly gent who just has not managed to replace his toupee correctly.

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Originally posted by Bwanamich:
I found another pic (small res0 of the same buff from another angle - too many pics of the same animal to have been photoshopped??
I've been wrong before!

I think by golly you're right
If they're that many pics in circulation I highly doubt they were all PhotoChopped!

GREAT genes!

Those bosses are so big they may be a hindrance to his everyday survival.

Good point 376. I have seen this phenomena before where an obviously fully mature bull with incredible drop in the horns had visibly less mass than the other bulls of similar age he was hanging around with, both in dry and wet season. I suspected that the drop in the horns prevented him from feeding efficiently as others? Such a situation could translate in the bull being more susceptible to dying through loss of condition in drought seasons where food is scarce and difficult to come by.....

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Originally posted by HBH:
Right out of my dreams. On 3 or 4 different occassions I have had a dream where there are 3 massive bulls running right to left roughly 20 yards out and I can't get the damn safety off the trigger will not move, and there they go gone forever.

HBH: You have a PM.