Buffalo

Buffalo may refer to:

Animals

Cattle

• African Buffalo The African buffalo, affalo or Cape buffalo is a large African bovid. It is not closely related to the slightly larger wild Asian water buffalo, but its ancestry remains unclear. Owing to its unpredictable nature which makes it highly dangerous to humans, it has not been domesticated, unlike its Asian counterpart, the domestic Asian water buffalo or Cape Buffalo (Syncerus caffer)
• American Buffalo, North American colloquial name for American Bison The American bison is a North American species of bison, also commonly known as the American buffalo. Some consider the term "buffalo" somewhat of a misnomer for this animal, as it is only distantly related to either of the two "true buffalo," the Asian water buffalo and the African buffalo. However, "bison" is a (Bison bison)
  • Bison hunting
• Water Buffalo The water buffalo or domestic Asian water buffalo is a large bovine animal, frequently used as livestock in southern Asia, and also widely in South America, southern Europe, north Africa, and elsewhere (Bubalus bubalis), domestic bovid widely used for dairy, meat and draught
• Wild Water Buffalo (Bubalus arnee), the ancestor of the domestic water buffalo
• Dwarf Buffalo or anoa Anoa, or Dwarf Buffalo, are a subgenus of Bubalus comprising two species native to Indonesia: the Mountain Anoa and the Lowland Anoa (Bubalus depressicornis). Both live in undisturbed forest, and are essentially miniature water buffalo, are similar in appearance to a deer, weighing 150–300 kg (330–660 lb). They live in deep rainforests, any of several small species of Bubalus

Birds

• Buffalo weaver, either of two species of African bird in the genus Bubalornis

Fishes

• Buffalo fish, any of the members of the Ictiobus Ictiobus, also known as Buffalo fish, is a genus of freshwater fish common in the United States. It is sometimes mistaken for carp because of its flat face and large, silver scales running along the body, though it lacks the whisker-like mouth appendages common to carp. Buffalo fish live in most types of freshwater bodies where panfish are found, genus of North American fish in the carp family

Insects

• Buffalo gnat or black fly, any of the biting flies of the family Simulidae
• Buffalo treehopper (Stictocephala bisonia), a North American species of treehopper

Plants

• Buffalo bean (Thermopsis rhombifolia)
• Buffalo bean (Mucuna pruriens)
• Buffalo clover (Alysicarpus vaginalis), a plant in the Alysicarpus genus
• Buffalo clover (Lupinus subcarnosus), a bluebonnet The bluebonnet, as a name common to several North American species of Lupinus, is the state flower of Texas. They typically grow about 0.3 m tall. The name may come from the shape of the petals of the flower and their resemblance to the bonnets worn by pioneer women to shield themselves from the sun. It may instead be derived from the Scottish lupin
• Buffalo clover or running buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum), a rare true clover
• Buffalo currant (Ribes aureum), an American shrub
• Buffalo gourd (Cucurbita foetidissima Cucurbita foetidissima is a xerophytic tuberous plant found in the southwestern USA and northwestern Mexico. A member of the cucumber family, the fruit is consumed by humans and non-human animals both. The fruit is can be eaten cooked like a squash when very young. As the fruit becomes fully mature, it is too bitter for humans to eat. At this), an American wild cucumber
• Buffalo grass, sweet vernal grass or vanilla grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum)
• Buffalo grass (Bouteloua dactyloides)
• Buffalo grass or sweet grass (Hierochloe odorata)
• Buffalo grass or St. Augustine grass St. Augustine grass (also known as Charleston Grass in South Carolina) is a warm season lawn grass that is popular for use in tropical and subtropical regions. It is a low to medium maintenance grass that forms a thick, carpetlike lawn, crowding out most weeds and other grasses (Stenotaphrum secundatum)
• Buffalo sallee (Eucalyptus mitchelliana), a small Australian tree

Places

Settlements and administrative areas

Canada

• Calgary-Buffalo, a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada
• Buffalo Narrows, Saskatchewan, a small Metis community in Northern Saskatchewan
• Province of Buffalo, one of several proposals for what eventually became Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada
• Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, a world heritage site in Alberta, Canada

South Africa

• Buffalo City Local Municipality, Eastern Cape Province

United States

(alphabetical by state)

• Buffalo, Illinois
• Buffalo Township, Ogle County, Illinois
• Buffalo Grove, Illinois Buffalo Grove is a village located in Northwest suburban Cook and Lake counties in Illinois, United States. The town was named for Buffalo Creek, which was itself named for bison bones found in the area. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 42,909. As of May 2007, signs welcoming visitors to Buffalo Grove show a population of 43,195
• Buffalo, Indiana
• Buffalo, Iowa Buffalo is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,321 at the 2000 census. Buffalo is located on the Mississippi River. The city is located near the Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa
• Buffalo, Kansas
• Buffalo, Kentucky
• New Buffalo, Michigan
• Buffalo, Minnesota Buffalo is a city in and the county seat of Wright County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 10,097 at the 2000 census
• Buffalo Lake, Minnesota
• Buffalo Township, Wright County, Minnesota
• Buffalo, Missouri
• Buffalo, Montana
• Buffalo County, Nebraska
• Buffalo, New York Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, behind New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, Buffalo is the principal city of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area and the seat of Erie County. The city, largest US city named Buffalo
  • University at Buffalo, The State University of New York State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly known as the University at Buffalo or UB, is a public research university which has multiple campuses located in Buffalo and Amherst, New York, USA. Offering 84 bachelor's, 184 master's and 78 doctoral degrees, it is the largest of the four comprehensive university centers within the State
  • Buffalo State College
• Buffalo, North Dakota
• Buffalo Township, Noble County, Ohio
• Buffalo, Oklahoma
• Buffalo Township, Pennsylvania, any of four townships in Pennsylvania
• Buffalo, South Carolina
• Buffalo, South Dakota
• Buffalo County, South Dakota
• Buffalo, Texas
• Buffalo Gap, Texas
• Buffalo, West Virginia
• Buffalo County, Wisconsin
  • Buffalo City, Wisconsin
  • Buffalo, Buffalo County, Wisconsin
• Buffalo, Marquette County, Wisconsin
• Buffalo, Wyoming

Watercourses

• Buffalo Bayou Buffalo Bayou is a main waterway flowing through Houston, in Harris County, Texas, USA. It begins on the west side of the county near Katy, Texas and flows approximately 53 miles east to the Houston Ship Channel and then into Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Along the way the bayou receives several significant tributary bayous, such as White, a main waterway flowing through Houston, Texas, United States
• Buffalo River, any of several rivers
• Buffalo Creek, any of several creeks
• Little Buffalo River (Tennessee), a river in Lawrence County, Tennessee, United States

Other places

• Buffalo Gap National Grassland, a protected area in South Dakota, United States
• Buffalo Hills, a mountain range in Washoe County, Nevada, United States
• Buffalo National Park, former national park in eastern Alberta, Canada
• Buffalo Ridge, a large expanse of rolling hills in Minnesota, United States
• Buffalo Speedway, a street in Houston, Texas, United States, near the site of a former racecourse
• Mount Buffalo National Park, a mountain plateau in Victoria, Australia, 200 km northeast of Melbourne
• Wood Buffalo National Park, a national park in northeastern Alberta and southern Northwest Territories, Canada

People

• Black Buffalo Woman, the first wife of Crazy Horse
• Buffalo or Beshekee, Ojibwa chief of the Leech Lake Band
• Buffalo Bill William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory (now the American state of Iowa), near LeClaire. He was one of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, and mostly famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of (1845–1917), American soldier, buffalo hunter and showman
• Buffalo Bird Woman (1839–1932), Hidatsa author
• Buffalo Bob Smith (1917–1998), host of the children's show Howdy Doody
• Buffalo Calf Road Woman, Cheyenne heroine
• Buffalo Hump, Comanche leader
• Buffalo Jim or James Barrier (1953–2008), an American wrestling promotor
• Buffalo Point First Nation, an Ojibwa or Saulteaux First Nation in Manitoba
• Buffalo Six, six Yemeni-Americans convicted of supporting al-Qaeda
• The Buffalo Nine, nine Vietnam War protesters arrested in 1968
• Chief Buffalo, Great Buffalo or Kechewaishke (Gichi-weshki 1759-1855), Ojibwe leader
• Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance , born Sylvester Clark Long, was an American journalist, writer and actor from Winston-Salem, North Carolina who became internationally prominent as a spokesman for Indian causes. He became famous following publication of his bestselling autobiography, purportedly based on his experience as the son of a Blackfoot (1890–1932), journalist, soldier and Native American impostor
• John Buffalo Mailer (born 1978), author, playwright and journalist
• Johnson W. Greybuffalo (born 1974), murderer
• Norton Buffalo (born 1951), singer-songwriter
• White Buffalo (chief) (1862–1929), chief of the Northern Cheyenne

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Companies and organizations

• Buffalo Airways, a charter and scheduled airline based in Hay River, Canada
• Buffalo Exchange, a chain of second-hand clothing stores based in Tucson, Arizona, United States
• Buffalo Technology, a Japanese-based company that manufactures computer peripherals
• Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes British/Australian social and benevolent organisation.

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Buffalo (album), a live album by Frank Zappa
• Buffalo (band), an Australian heavy metal band
• Donna the Buffalo an American band from Trumansburg, New York
• Grant Lee Buffalo, a 1990s rock band

Sculpture

• World's Largest Buffalo, a 60 ton sculpture of an American Bison located in Jamestown, North Dakota USA

Sport

• Basingstoke Buffalo, an ice hockey team from Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
• Buffalo Bills The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in Buffalo, New York. They play their home games in the suburb of Orchard Park, and since 2008 have played one home game per season in Toronto. They are members of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League (NFL). The Bills began, a professional American football team based in Buffalo, New York
• Buffalo Bisons (disambiguation), any of several sports teams from Buffalo, New York
• Buffalo Braves, an NBA basketball team from 1970–1978, now the Los Angeles Clippers The Los Angeles Clippers are a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, United States. They play in the National Basketball Association and are members of the NBA Western Conference's Pacific Division. The club's home games are played at the Staples Center, which they share with the Los Angeles Lakers, the Los Angeles Sparks,
• Buffalo Bulls, the intercollegiate athletic teams of the University at Buffalo
• Buffaloes, nickname of the South Africa national Australian rules football team
• Buffalo Sabres The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, a NHL team based in Buffalo, New York
• Calgary Buffaloes, former name of Calgary Centennials, a former junior ice hockey team in Calgary, Canada
• Calgary Buffaloes (AJHL), a former junior ice hockey team in Calgary, Canada
• Colorado Buffaloes, the intercollegiate athletic teams of the University of Colorado at Boulder
• Darwin Buffaloes, an Australian Rules Football team in Northern Territories, Australia
• Green Buffaloes F.C., a football (soccer) club based in Lusaka, Zambia
• Manitoba Buffalo, a Canadian rugby union team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba
• Vélodrome Buffalo and Stade Buffalo, former cycling tracks in Paris
• Vientiane Buffalos RUFC, a semi-pro rugby union football club from Vientiane, Lao P.D.R., consisting mostly of expatriate players
• Orix Buffaloes The Orix Buffaloes are a Nippon Professional Baseball team based in Osaka and Kobe, Japan. They play in the Pacific League. The team is owned by the Orix Group, a leading diversified financial services company based in Tokyo, a Japanese professional baseball team
• Kintetsu Buffaloes, a former Japanese professional baseball team

Technology

Coins

• American Buffalo (coin) The American Buffalo, also known as a gold buffalo, is a 24-karat gold bullion coin first offered for sale by the United States Mint on June 22, 2006 and available for shipment beginning on July 13. The coin follows the greatly admired design of the Indian Head nickel and has gained its nickname from the American Bison on the reverse side of the, a one ounce 24-karat gold bullion coin introduced by the United States Mint on 22 June 2006
• Buffalo nickel or Indian Head nickel, an American nickel five-cent piece minted from 1913 to 1938

Computers

• Buffalo AirStation, a line of wireless routers and interface cards
• Buffalo network-attached storage series The Buffalo network-attached storage series are network-attached storage devices. They can be modified into miniature general purpose Linux-based computers. The LinkStation and TeraStation are intended for the general public, while the Kuro Box is intended for expert hackers as a cheap platform for Linux development, computer storage devices

Military

• Avro 571 Buffalo, a 1920s prototype carrier-based British torpedo bomber
• Brewster Buffalo The Brewster F2A Buffalo was an American fighter aircraft which saw limited service during World War II. In 1939, the F2A became the first monoplane fighter aircraft used by the US Navy. It was built in three significant variants for the US Navy, F2A-1, F2A-2, and F2A-3. In foreign service, with lower horsepower engines, these types were, or Brewster F2A, a U.S. fighter plane which saw extensive service with both Allied and Axis air forces during World War II
• Buffalo (mine protected vehicle) The Buffalo mine protected vehicle built by Force Protection Inc is based on the successful South African Casspir mine-protected vehicle. As of late 2004, the United States has a limited number of Buffaloes in service, with an order for 15 more, at a cost of $10 million, a military vehicle that allows its operator to examine land mines safely
• Buffalo or Water Buffalo, occasional designation for Landing Vehicle Tracked The Landing Vehicle Tracked was a class of amphibious vehicles introduced by the United States Navy, Marine Corps and Army during World War II. Originally intended solely as cargo carriers for ship to shore operations, they rapidly evolved into assault troop and fire support vehicles as well. The types were all widely known as amphtrack, amtrak,, an amphibious vehicle used by Allied forces during World War II
• HMS Buffalo, any of several British Royal Navy ships
• USS Buffalo, any of several United States Navy ships
• MV Buffalo Soldier (T-AK-9301), a United States Navy Military Sealift Command Maritime Prepositioning ship
• Buffalo Soldier Buffalo Soldiers originally were members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, formed on September 21, 1866 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, a nickname for several black cavalry and infantry regiments of the United States Army
• de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo, a V-STOL aircraft produced between 1964 to 1987
• Operation Buffalo, any of three military operations

Transport

• Buffalo (1872–1892), any of the ten South Devon Railway Buffalo class steam locomotives
• Buffalo (1901 automobile), a US automobile
• Buffalo Electric Vehicle Company, a US automobile company
• GM Buffalo bus, a slang term for several models of intercity motorcoach

Other

• Buffalo Commons The Buffalo Commons is a conceptual proposal to create a vast nature preserve by returning 139,000 square miles of the drier portion of the Great Plains to native prairie, and by reintroducing the buffalo, or American Bison, that once grazed the shortgrass prairie. The proposal would affect ten Western U.S. states (Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming,, a conceptual proposal to create a vast nature reserve in the Great Plains area
• Buffalo jump, a cliff used historically by Native American people to kill American bison
• Buffalo pound, an enclosure used historically by Native American people to catch and kill American bison
• Buffalo Boots, a brand of shoe
• Buffalo (drinking game)
• Buffalo wings A Buffalo wing, hot wing, chicken wing or wing is a chicken wing section that is traditionally fried unbreaded and then coated in sauce. Classic Buffalo-style chicken wing sauce is composed of a vinegar-based cayenne pepper hot sauce and butter. Buffalo wings are traditionally served with celery sticks and blue cheese dressing, a spicy chicken snack originating in Buffalo, NY

See also

• American buffalo (disambiguation)
• Buffalo Soldier (disambiguation)
• Buffalo Trace (disambiguation)
• New Buffalo (disambiguation)
• White Buffalo (disambiguation)
• Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, linguistics specimen

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