I don't want to get all technical and sound like a nerd, but this is a bison, not a buffalo.
This is another Eadweard Muybridge project. They're individual photographs of the running of a buffalo shot in rapid succession much like he'd done four years earlier with "Sallie Gardner at a Gallop." This was Muybridge trying to perfect his craft before a single camera could capture motion. I don't know enough about Muybridge to know if he was doing this as an art form or for technical or scientific reasons. The galloping horse was to prove that a horse had all four hooves off the ground while at full gallop, so why the buffalo stills.
This is another Eadweard Muybridge project. They're individual photographs of the running of a buffalo shot in rapid succession much like he'd done four years earlier with "Sallie Gardner at a Gallop." This was Muybridge trying to perfect his craft before a single camera could capture motion. I don't know enough about Muybridge to know if he was doing this as an art form or for technical or scientific reasons. The galloping horse was to prove that a horse had all four hooves off the ground while at full gallop, so why the buffalo stills.