Water Buffalo
Bubalus bubalis
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 2,122
- Most observed in
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
Description
The water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), also called domestic water buffalo, Asian water buffalo, and Asiatic water buffalo, is a large domesticated bovine originating in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia descended from the wild water buffalo. Today, it is also kept in regions including Italy, the Balkans, Australia, the Americas, and parts of Africa. Two extant types of water buffalo are recognized, based on morphological and behavioural criteria: the river buffalo of the Indian subcontinent and further west to the Balkans, Egypt, and Italy; and the swamp buffalo from Assam in the west…
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Water buffalo”.