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These buffalo are very happy in the same exhibit, which is more visually interesting than the in-game bison's exhibit. You can now add wallows or a few hills if you like, as well.
Buffalo
The largest mammal on the North American continent, a healthy adult buffalo needs to have little fear of predators. However, a peacefully grazing animal can change without warning into a snorting, pawing, 2,000-pound threat, with a menacingly lowered head and stiffly upraised tail. Buffalo can charge at speeds over 30 mph. Both male and female buffalo have massive heads, which are not only equipped with lethal horns, but are also effective as battering rams.
Buffalo at rest may be seen rolling and wallowing. Wallows created by buffalo are shallow, dust-filled depressions, and were once a common feature of the plains where they roamed in large numbers. Buffalo live near gravel-lined streams amongst the gently rolling hills and plains of Northern America.
White Buffalo
The Legend of the White Buffalo:
"One summer a long time ago, the seven sacred council fires of the Lakota Sioux came together and camped. The sun was strong and the people were starving for there was no game.
Two young men went out to hunt. Along the way, the two men met a beautiful young woman dressed in white who floated as she walked. One man had bad desires for the woman and tried to touch her, but was consumed by a cloud and turned into a pile of bones.
The woman spoke to the second young man and said, "Return to your people and tell them I am coming." This holy woman brought a wrapped bundle to the people. She unwrapped the bundle giving to the people a sacred pipe and teaching them how to use it to pray. "With this holy pipe, you will walk like a living prayer," she said. The holy woman told the Sioux about the value of the buffalo, the women and the children. "You are from Mother Earth," she told the women, "What you are doing is as great as the warriors do."
Before she left, she told the people she would return. As she walked away, she rolled over four times, turning into a white female buffalo calf. It is said after that day the Lakota honored their pipe, and buffalo were plentiful." - from John Lame Deer's telling in 1967
These animals are fully compatible, and are programmed to like Catfish's small stones, Paardjee's green grass, Sundance's prairie foliage (not released yet), and several user-made shelters. These animals do NOT need a shelter, but they won't object to having one, either. Also shown in screenshot are some of Genki's Tall Grasses, which are exhibit-neutral.
UPDATED October 15, 2008 to make compatible with Genki's Night Mare and Day Mare, to fix a small error in the .ucs, and to make the buffalo like exhibit-neutral items.
Updated 2010-10-30
Just to save space with less in zip and smaller image.
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