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A water buffalo skull. Carl Linnaeus first described the genus Bos and the water buffalo under the binomial Bos bubalis in 1758; the species was known to occur in Asia and was held as a domestic form in Italy. [10]
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]
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]
Skull of a wild water buffalo in the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology. The wild water buffalo has an ash-gray to black skin. The moderately long, coarse and sparse hair is directed forward from the haunches to the long and narrow head. There is a tuft on the forehead, and the ears are comparatively small.
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.
The water buffalo was tranquilized after officials found him on the east side of Des Moines near Southeast 36th Street and Vandalia Road. Veterinarians gave him antibiotics when he was captured.
The oldest evidence of water buffalo discovered in the Philippines is multiple fragmentary skeletal remains recovered from the upper layers of the Neolithic Nagsabaran site, part of the Lal-lo and Gattaran Shell Middens (~2200 BCE to 400 CE) of northern Luzon. Most of the remains consisted of skull fragments, almost all of which have cut marks ...
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