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Cattle and Bison
Bovini
The tribe Bovini, or wild cattle are medium to massive bovines that are native to North America, Eurasia, and Africa. These include the enigmatic, antelope-like saola, the African and Asiatic buffalos, and a clade that consists of bison and the wild cattle of the genus Bos. Not only are they the largest members of the subfamily Bovinae, they are the largest species of their family Bovidae. The largest species is either the gaur (Bos gaurus) and...
4 branches of this tribe, most-observed first · about 16 known species

Cattle and bison
genusBos

African Buffaloes
genusSyncerus

Water Buffaloes and Anoas
genusBubalus

Saolas
genusPseudoryx
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 846321.