Traditionally of strong, muscular working type, became triple-purpose animals and several Latin American countries)Ī regional variety of the typical European, i.e. Has a refined head, prominent eyes, small flat compact horns growing back, up and in, short in the leg, low compact body, meaty hindquarters, straight topline typically Buffalypso are red or fawn, colors include black, brown, albinoid Įxported to 19 countries (the U.S. Trinidadian buffalo (sometimes called Trinidadian bison or hog cattle)ĭerives from crosses between the swamp type Carabao and river type breeds (such as Murrah, Nili-Ravi, Jafarabadi, Surti, Nagpuri, and Bhadawari) Has its own herdbook in Brazil, described as a naturalized genetic group rather than a breed, there is a variety called the Rosilho. Brazilian Carabao, Rosilho, and Baio river type breeds from India, Italy and Egypt were imported in the early to mid-20th century there are three river-type breeds recognized, the Jafarabad, Mediterranean $ Murrah. Swamp type breeds descended from stock originating from French Indochina, including the black Philippine Carabao, initially imported in about 1890 to Marajó Island (most are still found there today). Portuguese: preto (= typically black river-type breeds) Portuguese: bufalo de pantano (= swamp-type breeds) Variety of the Egyptian buffalo of the Baladi type W India: the Kachchh (Kutch) region of Gujaratĭeveloped by the semi-pastoralist Maldhari community. Includes both a black indigenous river-type (western and central areas) and a small gray indigenous swamp-type (eastern areas). Native buffaloes of Bangladesh’s floodplains, Varieties of the Baladi type are the Beheri and the Minufi buffalo. Has longer curved horns, is black or gray in color The Nile Delta’s milking variety of the Egyptian buffalo, Swamp-type Color labels separate the swamp-type from typically black (preto) South American river-type breeds Ĭonsidered a naturalized type or genetic group rather than a breed,Ĭategorization similar to Brazilian Carabao. Iranian Azari comprises 70% of the Iranian buffalo population. Turkey: the Marmara and Black Sea regions, and South Turkeyįeral swamp type buffaloes imported from the eastern Indonesian islands in the 1820s, River type buffaloes were imported in the 1990s. Feral herds are also present in New Britain, New Ireland, Irian Jaya, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil, and Uruguay. A large feral population became established in northern Australia in the late 19th century, and there are smaller feral herds in Papua New Guinea, Tunisia, and northeastern Argentina. They are especially suitable for tilling rice fields, and their milk is richer in fat and protein than that of dairy cattle. The seal of a scribe employed by an Akkadian king shows the sacrifice of water buffaloes.Īt least 130 million water buffaloes exist, and more people depend on them than on any other domestic animal. Water buffaloes were traded from the Indus Valley Civilisation to Mesopotamia, in modern Iraq, 2500 BC by the Meluhhas. After the domestication of the water buffalo in Southeast Asia, the swamp buffalo dispersed up to the Yangtze River valley between 3,000 and 7,000 years ago.
The swamp type may have originated in China and was domesticated about 4,000 years ago, while the river type may have originated in India and was domesticated about 5,000 years ago. The Swamp buffalo found from Assam in the west through Southeast Asia to the Yangtze valley of China in the east. The River buffalo of the Indian subcontinent and further west to the Balkans, Egypt, and Italy. Two extant types of water buffalo are recognized, based on morphological and behavioural criteria – The wild water buffalo ( Bubalus arnee) native to Southeast Asia is considered a different species, but most likely represents the ancestor of the domestic water buffalo. Today, it is also found in Europe, Australia, North America, South America and some African countries. The water buffalo ( Bubalus bubalis) or domestic water buffalo is a large bovid originating in the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and China.
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