Spotted by Pavlov's Cat at The Huffington Post.
Any article which starts a paragraph with "The young male buffalo, normally a docile species used to plow rice fields..." is clearly too good to just cut and paste in full, so you'll have to toddle over to the HP to read it for yourselves.
Monday 14 May 2012
"Vietnam Buffalo Rampage Injures 10 People"
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I particularly like the emotive before being gunned down at a kindergarten,
Ta for link
I love the way the Huffington Post links to footage of as buffalo stampede below the line. An American buffalo stampede...
PC, and the Americans thought they could occupy a country where even toddlers routinely carry fire arms.
JM, and as any pedant knows, the American ones are called "bison".
"The animal bit an elderly woman who was crossing a street and she was hospitalized with head injuries"
at least cattle don't attempt to chew people's heads off, do they?
Can you imagine the posibilities if an American bison went on a rampage in Buffalo, NY? "Bison buffaloes through Buffalo..."
Maybe said rampaging animal could get his teeth into a gay/straight male descendant?
"Bison buffaloes through Buffalo, bites on bi son".
The difference between a buffalo and a bison is you can't wash your hands in a bison.
/Brummy accent
Sarton Bander beat me to it!
And the US ones are indeed called buffalo - 'Bison Bill', anyone?
SB, can you wash them in a buffalo?
JM, from wiki: The American bison (Bison bison), also commonly known as the American buffalo...
A true Asian buffalo is quite simply a different kind of cattle, being very similar in appearance to European cattle, although a quick Google tells me you can cross breed between all three types (European, Asian, American) and it would also appear that the crosses are fertile (so they are not strictly speaking separate species).
I don't think anyone has ever managed to get a bison to pull a plough, however. Don't true buffalo have much longer horns than the little curly ones you find on bison in the US and, if you can ever find one, Europe?
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