Size comparisons

[Jimmy]

i have on different occasion come across animal comparisons and face offs between different animals, As much as i hate discussing versus issues, One case is that between american bison and water buffalo. Time and again i have seen that water buffalo is given points solely for the size of the horns and literally nothing else, supposedly other things like legs and body design is nothing notably great or even vastly inferior while for American Bisons, obviously it is stated that they have huge muscular shoulders, great pushing power/thrust and powerfully built. I can safely say Wild  water buffalo just does not look huge on photos without anything for comparision (i have seen them in the wild and zoos), due to their very well proportions design, naked body, no hump, no skin folds or dewlaps, no defined muscles etc while bison look absolutely enormous- huge hairy heads, beared, their forequarters  just bulges as it comes forward from their tapering back, exaggerating the entire mass. people often overllok buffalo due to these facts and for bison it's huge forequarters and hump distracts every other thing. So i tried to photoshop and observe their different physic side by side. These are the two candidates-

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even, in these photos, on its own, water buffalo does not look like great big bovine, bison do-pretty humongous to be fair, so lets compare them side by side

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first, i made the buffalo slightly lower at the shoulder than bison-only my assumption, maybe they are equal.  i put a circle at the back of the same size to show their difference in size, same thing i did with the thickness of legs-the lines show that water buffalo has pretty thick legs and back, the forelegs of the bison is hidden so i left as it is, the beard and hairs on the front and top of the bison gives an incredible illusion, i looked at the anatomy and put a line to indicate the actual size of the head. see the skeletal below, the top of the skull slightly raised above the baseline of it's horns.

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just to compare the back legs, the two bovines have completely different design. just for the information, as bison are taken as having a strong pushing power, Buffaloes are known as the 'tractors of rural Asia'- they have incredible pulling power, unlike cattles, buffaloes can negotiate and plough through knee-deep mud due to their thick legs and hooves, so the people who compare these two 'deceptive' bovines should look into more details before arguing their case.

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from the same photo above, just the back legs this time! Reply