A buffalo in Bangladesh has suddenly become an internet sensation, and it is all because of the hair.
The rare albino animal, weighing nearly 700 kilograms, has been nicknamed “Donald Trump” by locals after people noticed the thick blond tuft on its head. Now videos of the buffalo are spreading across social media, with crowds showing up just to see the bizarre lookalike for themselves.
The animal is being kept in Paikpara, in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, ahead of Eid al-Adha. But instead of quietly waiting at a livestock farm, the buffalo has turned into a local celebrity.
Visitors have been lining up. Content creators have been filming. And social media users cannot stop making the same joke.
That buffalo has Trump hair.
Its owner, Ziauddin Mridha, said the animal was purchased from a cattle market in Rajshahi about 10 months ago. The nickname, he explained, started as a family joke.
“My younger brother jokingly named it Donald Trump after seeing the hair on its head,” Mridha said, according to NDTV.
The name stuck fast.
The animal’s pale coloring and golden hair made it stand out immediately, but its calm personality has also made it easy for curious visitors to approach.
“It is very calm in nature,” Mridha said. “Albino buffaloes are generally peaceful and do not become aggressive unless provoked.”
The buffalo has reportedly already been sold, but that has not stopped the public attention.
One woman told Bangladeshi newspaper Prothom Alo that she first saw the animal on Facebook and could not believe the resemblance.
“When I saw his pictures on Facebook, he looked exactly like Donald Trump,” she said. “His facial structure and even hairstyle match that of Trump.”
And this is not the first time the animal kingdom has been dragged into Trump comparisons.
Over the years, several creatures have gone viral or even received names inspired by the president’s famous hair.
In 2017, a tiny moth was officially named Neopalpa donaldtrumpi after scientist Vazrick Nazari noticed its yellowish-white head scales looked like Trump’s blond hairstyle. The moth is found in Southern California and Baja California, Mexico.
Nazari said the unusual name was meant to bring attention to fragile habitats and little-known species still being discovered.
Trump’s name had already made its way into the scientific record a year earlier with Tetragramma donaldtrumpi, a fossil sea urchin found in Texas by fossil hunter William R. Thompson Jr. Thompson said he discovered five fossils in the 110-million-year-old Glen Rose Formation and named the species in Trump’s honor.
Then came another odd entry: a worm-like amphibian from Panama that was proposed to be named Dermophis donaldtrumpi after a UK company bought naming rights through a Rainforest Trust auction.
That one was not exactly a compliment.
The company EnviroBuild said the name was meant to mock Trump’s views on climate change, pointing to the creature’s poor eyesight and habit of burrowing underground.
There was also the “Trumpapillar,” a fuzzy orange-yellow caterpillar spotted in the Peruvian Amazon that became a viral hit because its wild hair looked like Trump’s famous style. Experts warned that similar hairy caterpillars can sting and should not be touched.
And in China, a golden pheasant named Little Red became an online celebrity after people noticed its sweeping yellow crest looked a lot like Trump’s hair.
Now the Bangladesh buffalo has joined the strange list.
It may not know anything about politics, presidents, or viral fame, but with that blond tuft sitting proudly on its head, the internet has already made up its mind.
For now, the world has another animal lookalike to laugh over — and this one weighs almost 1,500 pounds.
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