Buffalo Explained

Buffalo most commonly refers to:

• True buffalo or Bubalina, a subtribe of wild cattle, including most "Old World" buffalo, such as water buffalo
• Bison, a genus of wild cattle, including the American buffalo
• Buffalo, New York, a city in the northeastern United States

Buffalo or buffaloes may also refer to:

Animals

• Bubalina, a subtribe of the tribe Bovini within the subfamily Bovinae
  • African buffalo or Cape Buffalo (Syncerus caffer)
  • Bubalus, a genus of bovines including various water buffalo species
    • Wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee)
    • Water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)
      • Italian Mediterranean buffalo, a breed of water buffalo
    • Anoa
    • Tamaraw (Bubalus mindorensis)
    • Bubalus murrensis, an extinct species of water buffalo that occupied riverine habitats in Europe in the Pleistocene
• Bison, large, even-toed ungulates in the genus Bison within the subfamily Bovinae
  • American bison (Bison bison), also commonly referred to as the American buffalo or simply "buffalo" in North America
  • European bison is also known as the European buffalo
• Ictiobus, a North American genus of fish, known as buffalos

Places

Canada

• Buffalo, Alberta, a ghost town
• Buffalo National Park, Alberta
• Rural Municipality of Buffalo No. 409, Saskatchewan, a rural municipality
• Province of Buffalo, a proposed Canadian province

United States

• Buffalo, New York, the largest city by population with its name
  • Buffalo Niagara International Airport
• Buffalo, Illinois
• Buffalo, Indiana
• Buffalo, Iowa
• Buffalo, Kansas
• Buffalo, Kentucky
• Buffalo, Minnesota
• Buffalo, Missouri
• Buffalo, Montana
• Buffalo, Nebraska
• Buffalo, North Carolina
• Buffalo, North Dakota
• Buffalo, Guernsey County, Ohio
• Buffalo, Jackson County, Ohio
• Buffalo, Oklahoma
• Buffalo, South Carolina
• Buffalo, South Dakota
• Buffalo, Tennessee (disambiguation)
• Buffalo, Texas
• Buffalo, Henderson County, Texas
• Buffalo, West Virginia
• Buffalo, Jackson County, West Virginia
• Buffalo, Buffalo County, Wisconsin
• Buffalo, Marquette County, Wisconsin
• Buffalo, Wyoming
• Buffalo City, Arkansas, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
• Buffalo City, North Carolina, a town
• Buffalo City, Wisconsin, a city
• Buffalo County (disambiguation)
• Buffalo Township (disambiguation)

Elsewhere

• Buffalo, Victoria, Australia
• Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Coins

• American Buffalo (coin), a 24-karat bullion coin introduced 2006
• Buffalo nickel, a copper-nickel coin minted 1913–1938

Games

• Buffalo (card game), a card game
• Buffalo (game), a drinking game

Military

• , several Royal Navy ships
• , several U.S. Navy ships
• Landing Vehicle Tracked, a World War II-era amphibious vehicle
• Operation Buffalo (disambiguation)
• Avro 571 Buffalo, a 1920s prototype British carrier-based torpedo bomber biplane
• Brewster F2A Buffalo, a 1930s–1940s American fighter aircraft
• Buffalo (mine protected vehicle)

Music

• Buffalo (band), an Australian hard rock group
  • Buffalo (EP), by Buffalo
• Buffalo (Frank Zappa album)
• Buffalo (The Phoenix Foundation album)
• "Buffalo", a track from the album Cherry Bomb by Tyler, the Creator

People

• Chief Buffalo (disambiguation)
• Norton Buffalo (1951–2009), American singer-songwriter and musician
• Ted Buffalo (1885–1969), Native American football player
• Tishynah Buffalo, Indigenous Canadian fashion designer
• Black Buffalo (wrestler) (born 1974), Japanese professional wrestler

Schools

• University at Buffalo, a public research university in New York
• Buffalo State College, a public college in Buffalo, New York

Sport

Baseball

• Northern Territory Buffaloes, a defunct Australian baseball team
• Orix Buffaloes, a 2004–present Japanese baseball team
• Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes, a 1950–2004 Japanese baseball team
• Buffalo Bisons, a professional minor league baseball team based in Buffalo, New York

Football

• Buffalo Bills, a National Football League team
• Darwin Buffaloes, an Australian rules football team
• Green Buffaloes F.C., a Zambian football team
• K.A.A. Gent, a Belgian association football team
• South Africa national Australian rules football team, nicknamed the Buffaloes

Hockey

• Buffalo Sabres, a National Hockey League team
• Basingstoke Buffalo, an English ice hockey team
• Calgary Buffaloes, a 1966–67 Western Canada Junior Hockey League team
• Calgary Buffaloes (AJHL), a 1963–1966 Alberta Junior Hockey League team

Other uses in sport

• Colorado Buffaloes, the athletic teams of the University of Colorado Boulder
• Manitoba Buffalo, a Canadian rugby union team
• Milligan College Buffaloes, the athletic teams for Milligan College
• Vélodrome Buffalo and Stade Buffalo, cycling tracks in Paris
• Buffalo Bulls, the athletic teams of the University at Buffalo

Technology

• Buffalo Inc., a Japanese technology company
• Buffalo AirStation, a line of wireless LAN equipment
• Buffalo network-attached storage series
• BUFFALO, the bootloader for the Freescale 68HC11 microcontroller family

Transportation

Air

• Buffalo Airways, a Canadian airline
• de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo, a 1965–1972 Canadian turboprop aircraft

Land

• Buffalo (1901 automobile), a 1900–1902 American car
• Buffalo Electric Vehicle Company, a 1912–1915 American car company
• GM Buffalo bus
• South Devon Railway Buffalo class, a class of locomotives
• GWR 1076 Class, a class of locomotives often referred to as the "Buffalo Class"

Other uses

• Buffalo (footwear), a clothing brand
• Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, a fraternal organisation
• Pistol-whipping, or "buffaloing", using a handgun as a blunt weapon

See also

• • • American buffalo (disambiguation)
• Buffalo Bill, American scout, bison hunter, and showman William Cody (1846–1917)
• Buffalo robe, a cured bison hide with the hair, used for saddles, blankets, and padding in carriages and sleighs
• Buffalo coat, a heavy winter coat made from a buffalo robe or hide
• Buffalo wing, a style of chicken wing prepared with a spicy sauce coating
• Buffalo Exchange, a fashion retailer
• Buffalo Gap (disambiguation)
• Buffalo Trace (disambiguation)
• New Buffalo (disambiguation)
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• Bufalo (disambiguation)