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(04-22-2020, 11:09 PM)Pckts Wrote: @oncaatrox
Heres the water buffalo I was talking about
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That buffalo is huge, I knew Pantanal had some feral buffalos but they have probably mostly been wiped out by now.
They are rarer for sure, locals consider them a nuisance in the North and while it's not technically legal, they offer up hunts for them and it's a popular attraction.
My guide is actually a fan of them only because the Water buffalo will kill Jaguar cubs when they find them.
I'm personally not opposed to having large feral bovids in the wetlands of South America, they could be a good source of food for jaguars and replace the extinct magafuana they used to rely on before the Holocene mass extinction. A jaguar that regularly feeds on bovids will grow past 150 kg mark at its prime IMO. Jaguars do tend to have a preference for cattle when they have access to them, I imagine some of these feral buffalos learned to have a distaste for jaguars the way buffalos in Africa do for lions due to predation on calves and cows in the wild and would take the opportunity to kill them if they can, I haven't heard of predation on buffalo bulls yet. It's a fascinating dynamic.
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