This is the West African savanna form of the African buffalo. In W Regional Park, seven breeding herds were tracked; late in the dry season they used areas near permanent rivers, and six shifted southwest as the rains began.
Smitz et al. (2013) list S. c. brachyceros as brown/black. Their comparison table gives a mean horn-base width of 166 ± 18.3 mm and a skull length of 455 ± 22.9 mm; weight and body length are described as intermediate among the compared forms. These are mean ± SD values compiled from earlier literature, not new measurements from the paper's genetic study.
A GPS study tracked seven breeding herds in W Regional Park in 2007–08. Late in the dry season, 95% of each herd's utilization distribution was within a mean 5.3 ± 2.0 km of surface water. At the start of the rains, six herds shifted southwest by a mean 35.3 ± 10.1 km. H1 also moved, but without a southwest directional shift; it had access to suitable forage and water year-round. The early wet-season home ranges were established where perennial grasses made up at least about 9% of vegetation. These observations describe the seven herds in this park.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.