Water Buffalo Comments (2)
qwerty
"the water buffalo does not do anything wrong, but its a shame that komodo dragons and other animals have to eat them."
rebecca
"its great" ...
Water Buffalo
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
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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.
Water Buffalo Range
Fast Facts
Type: Mammal Diet: Herbivore Average life span in captivity: Up to 25 years Size: Head and body, 8 to 9 ft (2.4 to 2.7 m); Tail 2 to 3.
The wild water buffalo weighs 800 - 1200 kg (1800 - 2600 lb). It is found in wet grasslands (especially elephant grass) and marshes, near pools and wallows, and near (and in) large rivers. Occasionally it utilizes woodland.
Water Buffalo
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Water Buffalo are generally docile and can frequently be seen being tended to or ridden by children.
Water buffalo are big animals but Komodo dragons are the biggest venomous animals on the planet, as well as the most patient. It may not take an hour, in may not take a week, but eventually a bitten water buffalo will be too weak to carry on.
Water Buffalo, Bubalus bubalis
Lowland Anoa, Bubalus depressicornis
Mountain Anoa, Bubalus quarlesi
Tamaraw, Bubalus mindorensis ...
Water buffalo have sparse hair that is long and ashy gray to black. Their relatively long tail is bushy at the tip. Their legs are often dirty white up to the knees.
Unlike the Asian Water Buffalo, the bison has never really been domesticated, although it does appear on farms occasionally. It is raised now mostly on large ranches in the United States and Canada for meat.
: This is the largest species of wild cattle, bigger than the Cape buffalo, water buffalo, and bison. A large male will stand over two metres at the shoulder and weigh up to 1000 kg or more. Males are about 25% bigger than females.
8 m (6 ft) at the shoulder, the water buffalo has thick horns that sweep in an outward curve back toward the shoulders and may extend up to 1.2 m (3.9 ft) from tip to tip. Broad, splayed feet enable the animal to live in a marshy habitat.
Females do not associate as closely with their young as do the Asiatic water buffalo (B. bubalis). One mother was observed by Kuehn (1986) grazing 50 meters away from a neonate, which lay on the ground with the neck stretched out along the ground.
They scavenge from carcasses or stalk animals ranging in size from small rodents to large water buffalo. The young mostly feed on small gecko lizards or insects.
The African buffalo differs from the domesticated water buffalo found in other parts of the world, although they both superficially resemble one another.
The buffalo is one of the most abundant of Africa's large herbivores.
The Komodo dragon's prey is wide ranging, and includes wild pigs, goats, deer, and water buffaloes. In the wild they have also been observed to eat other smaller dragons. Occasionally they have been known to eat humans and human corpses.
Asian water buffalo have been domesticated and are used in some places to pull carts, wagons and plows.
Staples Sambar deer, wild pigs, water buffalo and antelope
Also known to attack sloth bear, dogs, leopards, crocodiles and pythons as well as monkeys and hares. Old and injured tigers have been known to attack humans and domestic cattle.
Carnivore; boar, deer, water buffalo, civet cats, rats, birds, fish, snakes, chickens, goats, eggs, carrion; up to 10% of adult diets consist of smaller komodo dragons
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This Cattle Egret was perched on a Water Buffalo near the banks of the Amazon River near Iquitos, Peru, in July, 2006. The image was taken with a Canon EOS 1D Mark II and EF 300mm F/4 L IS lens and 2X extender.
Carnivore. Wildebeest, water buffalo, warthogs, gazelles, zebras, antelope, and a wide range of others from small rodents to young elephants when needed.
Predators and Threats
Humans.
Komodo dragons ambush their prey; typically boar, water buffalo, and Sambar deer, and inflict a crippling, infectious bite. Then, using their long forked tongue to smell, they track their prey, which usually dies of infection within a few days.
called buffalo or American buffalo, due to their similar appearance to African and Asian water buffalo.
It is primarily a scavenger, but it will also stalk animals ranging in size from small rodents to large water buffalo. It lies motionless and camouflaged alongside game trails for the unwary, which tend to be the very young, the old and the sick.
They regularly kill prey as large as pigs and small deer, and have been known to bring down an adult water buffalo.
Buffalo Name commonly applied to the American bison incorrectly. But given to certain related oxlike mammals of Asia and Africa. The asiatic water buffalo or Indian buffalo stands 5 ft. or more at the shoulder.
Bengal tigers hunt medium-sized and large-sized animals, such as wild boar (an omnivorous mammal), sambar (a kind of deer), barasingha (a kind of deer), chital (a spotted deer), nilgai (an antelope), gaur (a large ox of South Asia) and water buffalo.
The local Timor Deer are the primary food of adult Komodo dragons, though they also eat a fair amount of wild pig and the occasional water buffalo.
Komodo dragons are carnivores. Young Komodo dragons feed on small prey such as lizards, snakes and small mammals. Adult Komodo dragons prey on larger animals such as deer, water buffalo and pigs. They also feed on carrion.
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Other mammals that might sometimes be thought of aquatic could include hippopotamuses, tapirs, and even water buffalos, or polar bears. Clearly there are difficulties in generalising about a group of animals this diverse.
Probably not in most cases, but in 1990 three Chinese doctors tested it and found that it did indeed lower the temperature of feverish mice and rats! They also tested water buffalo and cow horn and these were found to be just as effective.
 See also: Buffalo, Cattle, Deer, Bison, Antelope
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