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In Japan, the water buffalo was used as a domestic animal throughout the Ryukyu Islands or Okinawa prefecture, however it is almost extinct now and mainly used as a tourist attraction. [37] Per a 2015 report, about 836,500 water buffaloes were in Nepal. [38] The water buffalo is the main dairy animal in Pakistan, with 23.47 million head in 2010 ...
Unlike modern water buffalo, but similar to extinct Chinese Pleistocene species of Bubalus like Bubalus wansjocki, the horn cores have a triangular rather than rounded cross section, with the upper surface of the horn cores typically forming a flat plain that is continuous with the skull surface. [1]
Bubalus skull Kidney of a Bubalus. Smith described Bubalus as low in proportion to the bulk with very solid limbs, a small dewlap and a long, slender tail; the head is large with a strong convex-shaped narrow forehead, large eyes and funnel-shaped ears; horns are lying flat or bending laterally with a certain direction to the rear; the female udder has four mammae. [5]
Bubalus palaeokerabau is an extinct species of water buffalo that was endemic to Java during the Late Pleistocene.. B. palaeokerabau can be distinguished from more recent domestic water buffalo introduced to Java by their larger size and their extremely long horns, which can be around 2.5 m (8.2 ft) long from tip to tip.
Bubalus teilhardi is a larger species among the Bubalus genus. It has a relatively wide inter-orbital region, a domed frontal region, and a sloping facial profile. Behind the horns, the cranium is longer, the top and occipital regions exhibit a significant posterior convexity, and the occipital crest is well-developed.
Garima-I, a buffalo calf cloned using an "Advanced Hand guided Cloning Technique" was born in 2009 at the NDRI. Two years later in 2011, she died of heart failure. [88] [89] Garima-II, another cloned calf was born in 2010. This buffalo was inseminated with frozen-thawed semen of a progeny-tested bull and gave birth to a female calf, Mahima in ...
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The lowland anoa (Bubalus depressicornis) is a species of buffalo endemic to Sulawesi. Its closest relative is the mountain anoa, and it is still a debate as to whether the two are the same species or not. [3] It is also related to the water buffalo, and both are classified in the genus Bubalus.