What animals have you seen Cape buffalo housed with? I know they're very aggressive, I'm curious if they do well with other species or are they usually housed in their own enclosures?
Antwerp Zoo houses them with 20+ species of African birds: spoonbill, trumpeter hornbill, cattle egret, white crested and violet turaco, helmeted guineafowl, violet-backed and golden-breasted starling, ringd-necked/speckled/laughing/African olive dove/pigeon, hooded vulture, hadada and glossy ibis, Abdim's stork, speckled mousebird, Von der Decken hornbill, lilac-breasted roller, white-faced and fulvous whistling duck, amongst others.
Boras's zoo, Sweden, famous savannah exhibit has cape buffalo together with African elephants, giraffe, zebra and antelope.
They’re occasionally mixed with the main savannah at Beekse Bergen, but I think that isn’t a thing anymore and that they are just kept separate.
Givskud Zoo currently houses them with white rhinos, sable antelopes, gemsboks, and black wildebeest. Reserve Africaine de Sigean has forest buffaloes with blesboks and impalas, but I don't know if you were only asking about the caffer subspecies.
Knowsley Safari Park (UK) has/had them in a drive-through with Pere David's deer, unsure if they keep anything else with them though? Also kept in the large field exhibit at SDWAP with lots of other species, I've seen photos in the gallery of one in very close proximity to a rhino but I suppose the size of that exhibit would help with controlling aggression.
They all get along pretty well? I wasn't referring to either subspecies in particular. Interesting choice of mixture at Knowsley. I had forgotten about SDWAP. There are quite a few species in that enclosure aren't there?
I have seen cape buffalo with white rhino and diverse antílope in the zoologico nacional in Havana. Also cape buffalo and eland at Guadalajara zoo in México.
I wonder if it would be the same thing with the gaur, I had seen a post showing them together with sambar deer in Haute-Touche Animal Reserve
Hello. I believe Havana comes in third place when it comes to the number of species mixed with Cape buffalo. - Aepyceros melampus/Common impala; - Alcelaphus buselaphus (caama)/ Red hartebeest;; - Antidorcas marsupialis/Springbok; - Bos taurus (africanus)/Sanga catlle; - Ceratotherium simmum/Southern white rhino; - Giraffa reticulata/Reticulated giraffe; - Equus grevyi/Grevy's zebra; - Equus quagga (boehmi)/Grant's zebra; - Hippopotamus amphibius/Nile hippopotamus; - Hippotragus equinus/Roan antelope; - Loxodonta africana/African bush elephant; - Oryx gazella/Gemsbok; - Struthio camelus/Common ostrich; - Syncerus caffer/Cape buffalo; - Taurotragus oryx/Common eland; - Tragelaphus strepsiceros/Greater kudu. Source: https://zoolex.org/media/uploads/20...ippopotamuses-by-krisztian-svabik_GDToKph.pdf
