Diet Overlap

Syncerus caffer (African buffalo)
Hippopotamus amphibius (hippopotamus)

Common Diet

Bothriochloa glabra (tangelhead)
Eragrostis superba (Wilman lovegrass)
Megathyrsus maximus (Guinea Grass)
Sporobolus ioclados (pan dropseed)
Themeda triandra (red grass)
Urochloa trichopus (African liverseed grass)

Common Habitat

Africa
Albertine Rift montane forests
Angolan Miombo woodlands
Angolan montane forest-grassland mosaic
Angolan Scarp savanna and woodlands
Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests
Bamingui-Bangoran Conservation Area
Central Congolian lowland forests
Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa
Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests
Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
East Sudanian savanna
Eastern Afromontane
Eastern Arc forests
Eastern Congolian swamp forests
Eastern Guinean forests
Eastern Miombo woodlands
Guinean forest-savanna mosaic
Guinean Forests of West Africa
Guinean montane forests
Horn of Africa
Itigi-Sumbu thicket
Kahuzi-Biéga National Park
Kibale National Park
Kora National Park
Kruger National Park
Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve
Lake Manyara National Park
Lake Nakuru National Park
Mahale Mountains National Park
Mamili National Park
Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany
Northeastern Congolian lowland forests
Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
Northwestern Congolian lowland forests
Nouabalï-Ndoki National Park
Parc National d'Odzala
Parc National de la Benoue
Parc National de la Comoe
Parc National de Tai
Parc National du Niokolo-Koba
Queen Elizabeth National Park
Radom National Park
Reserve de la Biosphere de la Pendjari
Reserve Forestiere et de Faune du Dja
Saharan flooded grasslands
Serengeti volcanic grasslands
Serengeti-Ngorongoro Biosphere Reserve
Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
South Luangwa National Park
South Malawi montane forest-grassland mosaic
Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
Southern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
Southern Miombo woodlands
Southern Rift montane forest-grassland mosaic
Tsavo National Park
Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic
West Sudanian savanna
Western Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
Western Congolian swamp forests
Western Guinean lowland forests
Western Zambezian grasslands
Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
Zambezian coastal flooded savanna
Zambezian Cryptosepalum dry forests
Zambezian flooded grasslands

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Forage selection by African buffalo in the late dry season in two landscapes, Valerio A. Macandza, Norman Owen-Smith & Paul C. Cross, South African Journal of Wildlife Research 34(2): 113–121 (October 2004)
♦ 2C. R. Field (1970) A Study of the Feeding Habits of the Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius Linn.) in the Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, With Some Management Implications, Zoologica Africana, 5:1, 71-86,
♦ 3The Diet of the Hippopotamus in Ndumu Game Reserve, Natal, as Determined by Faecal Analysis, J.S.B. Scotcher, D.R.M. Stewart, C.M. Breen, S.-Afr. Tydskr. Natuurnavors. 8:1-11 (1978)