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Bubalus mindorensis (tamaraw)

Wikipedia Abstract

The tamaraw or Mindoro dwarf buffalo (Bubalus mindorensis) is a small, hoofed mammal belonging to the family Bovidae. It is endemic to the island of Mindoro in the Philippines, and is the only endemic Philippine bovine. It is believed, however, to have once also thrived on the larger island of Luzon. The tamaraw was originally found all over Mindoro, from sea level up to the mountains (2000 meters above sea level), but because of human habitation, hunting, and logging, it is now restricted to only a few remote grassy plains and is now an endangered species.
View Wikipedia Record: Bubalus mindorensis

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Bubalus mindorensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
62
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.34
EDGE Score: 4.77
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  529.112 lbs (240.00 kg)
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  2 years
Gestation [1]  10 months
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  28 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  7.216 feet (220 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Mindoro rain forests Philippines Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Mount Calavite Wilderness Sanctuary 44850 Philippines  
Mounts Iglit - Baco National Park II 209622 Philippines  
Palawan Biosphere Reserve 2843689 Philippines  
Puerto Galera Biosphere Reserve 57445 Philippines  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Philippines Philippines Yes

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Axis porcinus (hog deer)1
Boselaphus tragocamelus (nilgai)1
Pavo muticus (Green Peafowl)1
Rucervus duvaucelii (barasingha)1

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de 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
♦ 2Hamish 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
♦ 3Nathan 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
♦ 4Myers, 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
♦ 5Bubalus mindorensis, Carlo C. Custodio, Myrissa V. Lepiten, and Lawrence R. Heaney, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 520, pp. 1-5 (1996)
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