Diabuffalo

The **Diabuffalo** is the sixth buffalo and the first secret animal the player can befriend in the game. The player must complete a hidden mission to discover and tame it.

## Appearance

The Diabuffalo has an ash-grey to red gradient down its body, and has large devil-like red horns. It also has small red spikes on either side of its head, a red-tipped black nose, red hooves and a red tail with a black tip. In addition, it has a trail of fire which comes from its behind. These features give it the appearance of a devil or demon buffalo.

## Description

*Prepare yourself, mortal. This is one spicy meatball.*

## Requirements

* Cape Buffalo and Zebra tamed.
* Ride a single buffalo uninterrupted for 25 seconds (approximately 600-750m) in Savannah.

**Note:** Due to it being a secret animal, it will appear **every time** the player completes the above requirements.

## Trivia

* The Diabuffalo is a reference to the game Diablo through appearance and name.
	+ The description may also be a reference to Diablo. It is a quote spoken by the Skeleton King in Diablo I.
		- It may also reference a famous Alka-Seltzer commercial.
* The Diabuffalo is referenced in the Giraxxus description.
* The Diabuffalo has a unique sound effect in that when the player rides it, a soft, echoing demon's chorus sound effect can be heard.
* There is a popular myth in which the player has to ride 750m on a single buffalo for the Diabuffalo to appear, but this is incorrect. There is evidence on this below (see from 1:25 onwards).
	+ Another popular myth is that the Diabuffalo can be unlocked by riding a buffalo for 30 bucks, which can be disproved by the fact that it takes more than 40 bucks for the Diabuffalo to appear on a level 0 or 1 buffalo, which gets angry 3 seconds faster than a level 9 buffalo. On a level 9 buffalo, only 27 bucks are required for the Diabuffalo to appear.
* The Diabuffalo was originally much harder to get in the soft launch, requiring the player to ride 50 seconds on a single buffalo as opposed to 25.
	+ This was modified in 0.2.0 to the current 25 seconds.
	+ The player could also tame the then Diabluffalo before taming the Zebra in the tutorial. This would cause the player to complete the "Tame a more exciting animal" mission, however, they would receive no money from it and hence be unable to upgrade the buffalo habitat for the first time and continue.
		- The player could fix this by refreshing the app and opening their zoo, where they would have a zoo ticket price of 10.
* In version 0.1.0 in the soft launch, the Diabuffalo had a different description. It was "Diabluffalo are always complaining of a stomach ache."

## Notes

* The Diabuffalo was released in the original release, version 1.0.0, on the 22nd of June 2016, along with Savannah and all other original Savannah animals, Jungle and all original Jungle animals, and the Sky Zoo.
* The game drops a hint about how to get the Diabuffalo. Every now and then, the message "How long can you stay on a bucking buffalo?" would appear, but as of version 1.7.0, it disappeared once the player had tamed the Diabuffalo.
* The Diabuffalo was originally called the Diabluffalo in the soft launch.
	+ This name was mistakenly revealed in the full release in the Giraxxus description from versions 1.3.0 to 1.13.0.