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A two-ton tank that can outrun your horse and turn into a blizzard.

means A large, shaggy, horned wild bovine — properly the African or Asian water buffalo, though in North America the name is loosely applied to the American bison.

from From Portuguese 'búfalo' and Italian 'bufalo,' which trace back through Latin 'bufalus' to Greek 'boúbalos,' a word that meant antelope or wild ox. European explorers carried the term to the New World and slapped it onto the American bison — zoologically the wrong animal, but the name stuck so hard that 'buffalo' now conjures the great plains herds far more than any water-wallowing relative.

speed
Sprints up to 35 miles per hour
grammar trick
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storm walker
Bison face blizzards head-on instead of fleeing
near miss
Dropped from millions to hundreds by 1880s
weight
Bulls can top 2,000 pounds
for instance

buffalo bills — nfl team in buffalo, new york, founded 1960

buffalo wings — fried chicken appetizer created at anchor bar in buffalo, new york in 1964

american bison — large wild bovine once numbering 30-60 million across north american plains

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