FREQUENCY:  Common
NO. APPEARING:  20-200
ARMOR CLASS:  7
MOVE:  18"
HIT DICE:  5
NO. OF ATTACKS:  2 horns, or 1 charge with trampling (two hooves)
DAMAGE/ATTACK:  2-5/2-5, or 3-18 and 1-6/1-6
% IN LAIR: Nil (free roaming)
TREASURE TYPE: Nil
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Nil
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Nil
MAGIC RESISTANCE: Standard
INTELLIGENCE: Animal
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
SIZE: L
PSIONIC ABILITY: Nil
LEVEL/XP VALUE: See the  DMG,  page 85.
SOURCE: "What's For Lunch?", Dragon 137.

These common bovines are found in temperate forests and plains. They can charge
like a bull if they have 30' of running space.
Only one horn may be used
against a single foe, though two foes may
be attacked at once using both horns.
Note that these creatures are the same
as the American bison and European
wisent. The buffalo in the MM
are the same sort of bovines as Asian
water buffalo and Cape buffalo of Africa.

Wild and domesticated oxen are treated as
bulls in the  Monster Manual; aurochs (an
extinct form of wild cattle once found in
Europe) may be treated either as bulls or
as the "cattle (auroch)" listing in the article
"Into the Age of Mammals," in this issue.


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The wild cattle of the MM are
merely once-domesticated cattle that have
escaped confinement and now live in the
wilderness.