Great question! The plural of buffalo is actually buffalo, just like the singular form. That might sound a bit strange because in most cases, the plural form of a noun is created by adding an -s or -es at the end. But in the case of buffalo, we don't need to add anything at all.
This can be a bit confusing because in English, we often use the word "buffaloes" as the plural form. Technically speaking, that isn't incorrect, but it's definitely not the preferred way of referring to more than one buffalo.
So why don't we add an -s to make it plural? It all has to do with the word's origin. "Buffalo" is actually derived from the French "boeuf" (meaning ox or cow) and "buffler" (meaning to shuffle). When European settlers first came to North America and saw the large, shaggy animals roaming the Great Plains, they thought they looked a bit like their domesticated cows - so they started referring to them as "buffalo."
Over time, the word stuck - even after it was discovered that these animals weren't actually related to cows at all, but were a unique species of their own (now known as bison). And since the word didn't originally have a plural form in French, we've just continued to use the singular form "buffalo" to this day.
So there you have it - the plural of buffalo is buffalo, just like the singular form. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise!
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