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11-23-2017, 03:40 AM( This post was last modified: 10-11-2019, 08:37 AM by Rishi )
The wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee), also called Asian buffalo, Asiatic buffalo and Wild Asian Buffalo, is a large bovine native to the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
Wild water buffalo are larger and heavier than domestic buffalo, and weigh from 700 to 1,200 kg. Their head-to-body-length is 240 to 300 cm with a tail 60 to 100 cm long, and a shoulder height of 150 to 190 cm. Both sexes carry horns that are heavy at the base and widely spreading up to 2 m along the outer edges, exceeding in size the horns of any other living bovid. Their skin color is ash gray to black. The moderately long, coarse and sparse hair is directed forward from the haunches to the long and narrow head.
Wild water buffalo occur in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Cambodia, with an unconfirmed population in Myanmar. They have been extirpated in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Laos, and Vietnam. They are associated with wet grasslands, swamps and densely vegetated river valleys.
In India, they are largely restricted to in and around Kaziranga, Manas and Dibru-Saikhowa National Parks, Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary and Bura Chapori Wildlife Sanctuary and in a few scattered pockets in Assam.
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Figure taken from the book Bovids of the Wold (Jose R. Castello)