Anoa
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ANOA, the native name of the small wild buffalo of Celebes, Bos (Bubalus) depressicornis, which stands but little over a yard at the shoulder, and is the most diminutive of all wild cattle.
Anoa
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
(n´): see buffalo.
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Buffalo - name commonly applied to the American bison but correctly restricted to certain related African and Asian mammals of the cattle family.
Anoa apparently associate in pairs, rather than herds, except when the cows are about to give birth.
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Anoa is the Celebes name for buffalo. Boubalos (Greek) a buffalo. The Quarles mountain range runs through central and southwestern Sulawesi.
the anoa of Indonesia, B. depressicornis
the tamarau of the Phillipines, B. mindorensis
the Indian bison or gaur, Bos gaurus ...
Water Buffalo (B. bubalus) Â- Lowland Anoa (B. depressicornis) Â- Mountain Anoa (B. quarlesi) Â- Tamaraw (B. mindorensis)
Bos
Banteng (B. javanicus) Â- Gaur (B. gaurus) Â- Yak (B. mutus) Â- Cattle (B. taurus) Â- Kouprey (B. sauveli) ...
Bornean orang-utan (Pongo pygmaeus)
Mountain anoa (Bubalus quarlesi)
Asian tapir (Tapirus indicus)
Maleo (Macrocephalon maleo)
Lowland anoa (Bubalus depressicornis)
Birdwing butterfly (Ornithoptera meridionalis) ...
For many centuries it has been domesticated as a draft animal and as a source of milk, but wild forms exist. The anoa or pygmy buffalo is the wild oxen of the Celebes . The fierce Cape buffalo is found in South Africa .
The Red Book of Endangered Species includes Grevy's zebra and Hartmann's mountain zebra, Przewalski's horse, the Malayan tapir, babirusa, vicugna, Formosan sika deer, addax, Barbary sheep, dama gazelle, lechwe, gaur, anoa, ...
 See also: Cattle, Buffalo, Water Buffalo, Lowland Anoa, Bison
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