water buffalo

{plural – the same spelling ‘buffalo’; ‘buffaloes’; ‘buffalos’}

a kind of animal – mammal – four-legged – grass-eating – diurnal (= active at night) – brown, grey or black – broad forehead with two long horns, two long, straight ears, large, round, clear eyes, long, slightly blunt muzzle (= mouth and nose part), large wide teeth on the lower jaw, no teeth on the upper jaw, thick short neck, large, stout, barrel-like body, long, slender legs with wide-splayed hoofed feet, long (2-3 foot-long) tail

male ~~ bull

female ~~ cow

baby ~~ calf

group ~~ herd, troop, gang, obstinacy; team (when used as draught animals)

voice (call) ~~ bellow

home ~~ (man-made) shed

The animals with the name “buffalo”: American buffalo or bison; African buffalo or Cape buffalo; wild Asian water buffalo; domesticated Asian water buffalo

American buffalo or bison:

6 feet tall, 10 feet long, and 400-1000 Kg. in weight (male larger than female); large head with short horns, small eyes, small ears, blunt muzzle, a hump on the back, thick hair around neck, chest and back, bodies narrows and slopes down at the back, relatively short legs with hooves on feet, short tail with a tuft of hair at the end; found in North America; not closely related to the other buffalo

African buffalo or Cape buffalo:

5-6 feet tall at the shoulder, 9-10 feet long, and 500-900 Kg. in weight; large, thick head with a bump of bone from which the horns that grow side-ways and curves upwards and again in-wards, wide forehead, long straight ears that spread to the sides of the face, relatively small eyes, blunt muzzle, short, thick neck, large, barrel-like body, long, slender but strong legs with hooves on feet, long, thin tail with a tuft of hair at the end; found in Africa; not closely related to the other buffalo

wild Asian water buffalo:

{The largest of all the ‘buffalo’!}

6 feet tall at the shoulder, 10-12 feet long, and 800-1200 Kg. in weight, large head with relatively short but wide, slightly upward curved horns, broad fore-head, forward-facing, clear, round eyes, large straight ears that spread to the sides of the face, longer muzzle, thick, short neck, large, barrel-shaped body, long, strong legs with hooves on feet, long, thin tail with a tuft of hair at the end; ancestor of the present ‘domestic Asian water buffalo’; very few numbers found in the wild; native to Asia; currently found only in small parts of Indian, Nepal, Bhutan and Thailand

domesticated Asian water buffalo or domesticated water buffalo or water buffalo or buffalo:

5-6 feet tall at the shoulder, 8-9 feet long, and 300-600 Kg. in weight, slender in built, relatively narrow head and forehead, straight or curved horns, larger, straight ears that spread to the sides of the face, thick neck, round body, slender but strong legs with wide-splayed hoofed feet, 2-3 feet long thin tail with a tuft of hair at the end; found in most numbers in Asia, and few other parts of the world

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