Asian Wild Water-Buffalo (Bubalus arnee)

[Jimmy]

Some activities (and accompanying text) of hard ground Wild buffalo 'Arna' bubalis arnee arnee captured by Nepalese photographer Om Yadav at Koshi-Tappu wildlife reserve, Nepal.
1. We saw an adult male Wild Water Buffalo (arna) grazing in the grassland and he saw us too

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2. He started walking towards us

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3. While walking towards us he saw another male that was grazing in the same area but was hidden from his view a little while ago

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4. He then moved on to look at this new male and started to size him up. The new male (left) tried to present his best confident posture trying to hold his ground and he urinated a little and started to move away slowly

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5. The one that was originally coming towards us, was now chasing the other male

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6. The chase continued for about 40-50 meters

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7. While chasing the other wild water buffalo he noticed us again

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8. He abandoned the chase and started to look in our direction inching towards us. This was when we retreated slowly to a higher ground

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9. He came pretty close and looked up at us like this for about 4-5 minutes

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10. After a while he got back to grazing

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11. Although he did look up at us in between his grazing, things were pretty normal at this point. Notice the Black Drongo feeding its young one on the back of the Arna

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