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Bubalus bubalis (water buffalo; water buffalo (feral))

Synonyms: Bos bubalis

Wikipedia Abstract

The water buffalo or domestic Asian water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) is a large bovid originating in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and China. Today, it is also found in Europe, Australia, and some African countries. 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.
View Wikipedia Record: Bubalus bubalis

Infraspecies

Bubalus bubalis arnee (Bos bubalus variety fulvus) (Endangered) (Attributes)
Bubalus bubalis bubalis
Bubalus bubalis fulvus
Bubalus bubalis kerabau
Bubalus bubalis migona
Bubalus bubalis theerapati

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data.
ED Score: 6.34
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Gestation [2]  10 months 11 days
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  35 years
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  9.25 feet (282 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams, Temporary Pools
Weaning [2]  7 months 18 days
Adult Weight [2]  1,598.36 lbs (725.00 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  82.674 lbs (37.50 kg)
Diet [3]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [3]  100 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  1 year 4 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No

Emblem of

Chhattisgarh
Philippines

Predators

Cuon alpinus (Dhole)[5]
Varanus komodoensis (Komodo Dragon)[6]

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5Cuon alpinus, James A. Cohen, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 100, pp. 1-3 (1978)
♦ 6Monitoring the ungulate prey of komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis) using faecal counts, Tim S. Jessop, David M. Forsyth, Deni Purwandana, Jeri Imansyah, Devi S. Opat and Eve McDonald-Madden, (2005) Zoological Society of San Diego, USA, and the Komodo National Park Authority, Labuan Bajo, Flores, Indonesia. p. 26
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 8Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0