Learn About the Amazing Water Buffalo
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The Wild Asiatic Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) is an endangered species.
True wild populations still live in Bhutan, India, Nepal and Thailand, while their domesticated counterparts are very widespread.
They are large animals, standing 1.5 to 1.9 meters in height at the shoulder. Wild male water buffaloes can become 3 meters in length and weigh up to 1200 kilos, while their domesticated counterparts can weigh 250 to 550 kilograms.
They can become 25 years of age in the wild.
They Love Water
The Wild Asiatic Water Buffalo is a social animal, with groups of 10 to 20 individuals
Water Buffalo Race
carabao (water buffalo) race, Pulilan, Bulacan, Philippines.
Water Buffalo Days: Growing Up in Vietnam
Excellent book which will grab your heart and teach you
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Water Buffalo Days: Growing Up in Vietnam
Amazon Price: $2.49 (as of 06/01/2012)
This story starts off slowly, but quickly picks up speed as the author remembers fondly his childhood days spent in the central highlands of Vietnam. He describes the people and animals of his village, focusing on his family's two water buffaloes that are his favorite playmates. After the first one dies, the boy's father finds a young replacement, Tank. Quang Nhuong is delighted and describes various escapades he shares with the bull, playing hide-and-seek, an encounter with a crocodile, and a battle with an otter.
Female water buffalo produce one water buffalo calf every couple of years.
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Female water buffalo produce one water buffalo calf every couple of years. After a gestation period of up to 11 months, the female water buffalo gives birth to her buffalo baby. The baby water buffalo stays with its mother and is dependant on her for it's first couple of years. After about three years, male water buffaloes leave the mother water buffalo to join all male water buffalo groups. The female water buffalo will often remain in the same water buffalo herd as it's mother.
Living tractor of the East
Made From Water Buffalo Milk
Buffalo Mozzarella
There are 150m worldwide and in countries like India they provide more milk than any other animal.
Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages
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Ban Ho water buffalos
Water buffalo taxi
Taketomi-jima Island, Okinawa, JAPAN
American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon by Steven Rinella
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Thunder on the Plains: The Story of the American Buffalo by Ken Robbins
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Buffalo Nation: American Indian Efforts to Restore the Bison (Bison Original) by Ken Zontek
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The wild Asian buffalo is the ancestor of the domestic water buffalo. The wild Asian buffalo has been domesticated for thousands of years and bred around the world into various, mostly smaller, breeds of less than 500 kg (1100 lb). The domesticated water buffalo is now found in most tropical and subtropical regions.
The National Animal of the Philippines is the carabao, the Asian Water Buffalo!
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