(12-25-2020, 03:30 AM)Ovie11 Wrote: Efforts to become number 1 in case of wildlife, 50 years ago extinct Wild Water Buffalo will now be brought back to Madhya Pradesh.

After creating a record in the number of tiger and leopard, Madhya Pradesh is trying to settle those species which have become extinct decades ago. After the African Cheetah, there is now a plan to bring wild buffalo from Chhattisgarh and Assam. Buffaloes will be inhabited in Kanha Tiger Reserve. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has approved this, but before bringing the buffalo it will be studied whether Kanha Park has a favorable environment for buffalo. The responsibility of the study has been entrusted to scientists of the Indian Wildlife Institute of Dehradun. Buffaloes have been extinct from Madhya Pradesh five decades ago. 

Preparations are on to bring wild buffalo in the state. The forest department is trying to get three pairs. The Government of Chhattisgarh and Assam are also ready for this, but the Kanha Park in which buffalo is to be inhabited. It is necessary to study it first. According to forest officials, the NTCA has written to the Wildlife Institute of India Dehradun for study. Experts say that the institute may soon send a team of scientists to Kanha Park for study. The team will stop here and study for three to six months. It is noteworthy that only bison (Gaur) is found in Madhya Pradesh. There are differences in both species. The last buffalo in the state is seen in the year 1979 near Roopjhir village in Panna's Rapura area. 

Claim of better environment in Kanha 

The wild area of Kanha Park is said to be favorable for wild buffalo. It has adequate fodder and water. The area has grasslands with a forest of small shrubs in a circumference of about three km. 

Epidemic 

One of the main reasons for bringing wild buffalo to Madhya Pradesh is to save them from the epidemic. At present, the number of Asian bison is less than four thousand. There are 11 buffaloes in Udayanti National Park in Chhattisgarh. Till a century ago, a large number of bison were found all over Southeast Asia. Who are now left in Raipur division of Kaziranga, Chhattisgarh, India. 

They say 

Wild buffalo has sent a proposal to settle in Kanha. The proposal has also been approved. Soon a team of scientists will come to study. Shifting will begin after this.

Translated from google 

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(01-13-2021, 12:00 AM)Acinonyx sp. Wrote:

Morphological variation in Asian water buffalo breeds

(a) Shanghai, swamp type from China; (b) Toraja Spotted, swamp type from Indonesia; © Sylhet, swamp type from Bangladesh; (d) Mediterranean river type; (e) Murrah, river type from India; (f) Nili-Ravi, river type from Pakistan. 

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Morphological-variation-in-Asian-water-buffalo-breeds-a-Shanghai-swamp-type-from_fig1_338756778