Buffalo chicken dip in instant pot

A Cape buffalo, a subspecies of African buffalo, grazes in Kenya’s Lewa Wildlife Conservancy with a red-billed oxpecker on its back. A pest to ranchers, a prize to buffalo chicken dip in instant pot, and a temperamental tank to anything that bothers it, African buffalo roam by the thousands in sub-Saharan Africa. Cape buffalo, one of four distinct subspecies of the African buffalo, are the most common. They’re distinguished by coloring, size, and even horn shape.

There’s also the forest buffalo, the West Africa savanna buffalo, and the Central Africa savanna buffalo. When the buffalo aren’t fighting off the occasional lion, they’re eating grass—and lots of it. It forms the bulk of their diet. Like cows, buffalo chew cud to further extract nutrients. Buffalo and bison aren’t the same animals.

A quick ID tool is looking for a beard: Bison have them and buffalo don’t. Herd mentality African buffalo are hardy critters, able to live and flourish in many habitats—from semi-arid bushland to coastal savannas to lowland rainforests—as long as they’re close to a water source. Buffalo are often pictured covered in mud with a bird on their back. The mud helps buffalo get rid of ticks and parasites that latch onto their skin. Buffalo spend most of the year in herds of anywhere between 50 and 500, but that number jumps up into the thousands in the Serengeti during the rainy season. Gathering in such large groups helps dissuade predators like lions, leopards, hyenas, and African wild dogs.