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As of August 2017, five individual buffaloes have served as Ralphie, including the incumbent, 11-year-old Blackout. What do you know about each?

The buffalo who became Ralphie I arrived in Boulder in 1966. In 1967, her Folsom Field performances took root in Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ culture.

Drs. Lori and Michael Scott of North Denver Animal Clinic have treated animals for nearly three decades — including, for the last 20 years, all the Ralphies, active and retired.

Ralphie might not know it, but she’s got a sidekick

Hunted nearly to extinction by the time the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ was founded, the American buffalo owes its rebound mainly to private ranchers.

Last October Ted Turner offered to give the city of Boulder a herd of 25 buffalo to put on city open space along the Boulder-Denver Turnpike.