well now, pardner, let me spin you a yarn about them buffaloes, mighty beasts of the prairie, where neglect ain't no part of their tale. see, the understanding 'twixt man and buffalo is a tacit one, deeper than the roots of the oldest sagebrush and silent as the moon ascending over the canyon. now, ain't nothing preexplanatory about the ways of these majestic creatures; it's an instructional journey, a learning to live with the land, to commence again every mornin' with respect and awareness.