This udderly frightening bovine is a spook-tacular design for Halloween or any other day of the year !
Classified as Lower Risk, the Congo or Forest Buffalo can be found in Africa’s Rainforest. Mainly grazing on grass and lower level leaves, they are nevertheless powerful fighters and can run at speeds of up to 57 km/hr. Note the swept back horns like the Bongo which allows them to escape predators without tangling up in vegetation. Where humans have introduced domestic cattle, buffalo populations have sometimes been affected by diseases and parasites carried by the cattle. Buffalo are also threatened by illegal hunting and loss of habitat.
I was driving along side some of the many paddocks that frequent my area (the Hawkesbury area) when I came across this cow, the light seemed to be pretty decent and seeing as how the cow was a few metres away I decided it would be a good opportunity to test out my new 55-200mm lens.. / The cow just would not look at me (unusual for a cow) and then finally it decided to sneak a glance so I snapped the shutter and this was the result.. / Post processing involved adjusting the exposure, contrast and levels, and then applying a vignette and a monochrome filter. / I havent uploaded anything for quite some time so I decided to throw this image to the wind and see if it flies or crashes and burns.. / As per usual comments and critiquing are more than welcome, and thanks very much for taking a look! Best viewed LARGE EXIF Data / Camera Body: Nikon D40 / Lens: AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED / Date: 15/04/2008 / Time: 4:23pm / Aperture: f5.6 / Shutter: 1/320 / ISO: 200 / Focal Length: 200mm
Taken in the Altamont Pass, CA. Feb 2008
In American Western culture, the bison is commonly referred to as “buffalo”; however, this is a misnomer Though both bison and buffalo belong to the same family, Bovidae, the term ‘buffalo’ properly applies only to the Asian Water Buffalo and African Buffalo. The gaur, a large, thick-coated ox found in Asia, is also known as the Indian Bison, although it is in the genus Bos and thus not a true bison. The American and European bison are the largest terrestrial mammals in North America and Europe. Like their cattle relatives, bison are nomadic grazers and travel in herds, except for the non-dominant bulls, which travel alone or in small groups during most of the year. American bison are known for living in the Great Plains. Both species were hunted close to extinction during the 19th and 20th centuries but have since rebounded, although the European bison is still endangered. Unlike the Asian Water Buffalo, the bison has never really been domesticated, although it does appear on farms occasionally. It is raised now mostly on large ranches in the United States and Canada for meat. Wild herds are found in Yellowstone, Utah’s Antelope Island, South Dakota’s Custer State Park, Alaska, and northern central Canada Other Categories / Animals / Apes / Architecture / Baby Animals / Bears / Birds / Big Cats / Elephants / Fish / Insects / Macro / Nature / Reptiles
This old Aermotor Windmill in southeastern Colorado serves up the perfect infinity pool for this crowd of bovines.
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Meet Daisy.. Jersey’s pride and joy.
Shot in Addo Elephant Park, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Playing around with fractalius filter!
A fiery-tempered bull in shades of red, gold, bronze and brown
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I remembered the story of Ferdinand from when I was a kid and when I went past this bull under a tree near the base of Mount Buffalo I knew I just had to get out and capture him. He’s aged a bit, and there’s not too many flowers to sniff, but he still seems content. Find out more about Ferdinand the Bull @ Wikipedia
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ACRYLIC ART CALENDARS CARDS POETRY PHOTOGRAPHY – ANIMALS PHOTOGRAPHY -CANDID SHOTS PHOTOGRAPHY – CATS AND DOGS PHOTOGRAPHY – CONTEMPORARY WORK PHOTOGRAPHY – FLOWERS PHOTOGRAPHY – INSECTS PHOTOGRAPHY – TRADITIONALLY TURKISH PHOTOGRAPHY – TREE AND TREE PARTS T-SHİRTS The “Bull-Fight” series represents Bull Wrestling and were produced as Commissioned Pieces for a private collector living in Turkey. More products available / / In this work I hoped to capture the movement and grace of the sparring animals in her simple and unique style. / There is a second in this set: / / In this traditional Turkish spectacle no animals are injured. The original artwork is SOLD ACRYLIC PAINTING 2009 / PENCIL WORKS on PAPER 2009 / ACRYLIC PAİNTING 2008 / TAICHE’S TEASE / DIGITALLY MODIFIED ART / EARLY WORKS FROM MASTERPIECE:NOT FOR SALE /
The cows were pretty curious – mind you they probably didn’t normally have many humans at that time of the morning disturbing their peaceful start to the day!! / Landscapes Trees Cards EOD Rusty Flowers Architecture Macro CatchAll DM / /
Yet another highland cow, this time taken somewhere along the Pennine Bridleway in the Derbyshire Peak District. You can see Manchester in the distance. Shame it was so cloudy. See my Livestock Calender
This steer belongs to a friend of mine who lost her barn to fire 9/11/2007. 100% of the proceeds from this image will go to her to help her rebuild. Thank you for looking. God bless.
This is a small water hole in Wistow, South Australia on the property across the road from us. Usually we see ducks and few other birds but only cows today!
this cow stops to take it all in at the 2008 Topsfield Fair in Topsfield, Massachusetts
We have a bull in our neighborhood that smiles! He LOVES apples & he’ll smile for them! He’s HUGE & has enormous horns too but he’s a big old softy! It may just be one of THE most adorable smiles I’ve EVER seen!!!! FEATURED in the group Funny Kritters ~ also used for group avatar
A herd of bovines bunched up together. / All sales of this image are donated to the Wildlife Appeal.
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