- You may be looking for Buffalo wing or bison.
Buffalo were cattle-like creatures that lived on Earth. Because Roz Forrester's family name, Inyathi, translated as "buffalo", she wasn't allowed to eat a buffalo. (PROSE: The Also People [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).)
History
Buffalo were once the dominant species on Earth, but when their Herd-Leader was trapped in ice they degenerated without his mind. The Bovine Herd Leader revived thousands of years later and was able to travel back in time. He found his species were being wiped out by the Native Americans and guided Christopher Columbus to America in 1492, hoping the Europeans would wipe out the Native Americans and save his herd. However, the Europeans wiped out the buffalo themselves. (AUDIO: Trouble in Paradise [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)
The Seventh Doctor and Ace saw buffalo living in the Ngorogoro Crater in 1926. (PROSE: Prelude Birthright [+]Nigel Robinson, 1993.)
The last buffalo died in captivity in 2193. (PROSE: The Also People [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).)
Cultural references to buffalo
The Sixth Doctor used the password "buffalo" to access the UNIT telephone line. (AUDIO: Vampire of the Mind [+]Justin Richards, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2016).) The Ninth Doctor later told Mickey Smith to use same password to access a variety of areas of the UNIT website, (TV: World War Three [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005).) which he shared within a couple of days to the readers of his website, along with another password, "bison". (PROSE: Hoax This! [+]BBC webteam, Who is Doctor Who? (BBC, 2005).)
At different points, "bison", "buffalo", (PROSE: Hoax This! [+]BBC webteam, Who is Doctor Who? (BBC, 2005)., Secure Login) and "badwolf" were passwords to the operations board on the UNIT website. (PROSE: Secure Login) The password "buffalo", if entered into the override code field, allowed an individual to navigate and fire a missile towards anywhere on Earth. (GAME: Untitled [+]BBC webteam, U.N.I.T. (BBC, 2005).)
Behind the scenes
- The DWU fails to use buffalo as a synonym for bison — which it is, in a limited sense. Certainly, North American buffalo are bison. However, the kind the Seventh Doctor and Ace saw in Africa would have been African buffalo and not at all bison.
- However, the U.N.I.T. tie-in website does use the password "buffalo" and "bison" interchangeably.