We know this is a big male because of his "boss" or fused horns and white eye rings. His job is to protect the young and the females and he certainly let us know that. Cape Buffalo are undomesticatable because they are so unpredictable, but I have read that they also have long memories and can behave with affection towards people they've known years earlier.
These are bachelor males, which form a sub-heard of individuals 4 to 7 years of age. During the dry season they are a bachelor herd, but rejoin the females for the duration of the wet season to mate and protect the calves. Adult males "play and spar".
No "boss" or shield on her head and a reddish coat, not to mention the presence of the calf, makes these cape buffaloes the core female herd.