I’m going to base this on the owl bear because I feel like it.

so my now made up rule is for animals merged like this the first animal is the modifier and the second is the base.

therefore it is a chicken with a buffalo look, not a buffalo with a chicken look.

real life reference: a whale shark is a shark that looks like a whale, not a whale that looks like a shark

I have no rational argument, but it feels like buffalo chicken is the top one. The bottom is a chicken buffalo.

I personally feel like it’s the bottom. Unfortunate for us, but it is what it is.

The first, obviously. Where else would buffalo wings come from?

Gotta be the first one. Because as we all know, buffalos have wild wings! Thats why they call it buffalo wild wings! The second one doesn’t have ANY wings, much less wild ones!

Come back when the second one develops some wild wings!