Bubalus bubalis - #312
Water Buffalo
Side view of male
Geographic Distribution
Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, India (survives in Assam and Orissa), Nepal, N Thailand, Vietnam, and possibly at least formerly in Laos; domesticated in N Africa, S Europe, and even England, east to Indonesia and in E South America; supposedly feral populations in Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippines and other parts of SE Asia; feral populations resulting from introductions in New Britain and New Ireland (Bismarck Arch., Papua New Guinea), and Australia.
Order/Family
Bovidae
Genus
Bubalus
Specific Epithet
bubalis
Image Location
Darwin, NT, Australia
Image Date
1974
Photographer
R H Barrett