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Buffalo / buffaloes grazing on grass in a field in Assam. A canal flows by with a grassland alongside it. These do look like domestic buffalos, and perhaps are! Also, see the cultures on the tall Sehmal (Indian Silk Cotton) tree! The wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee) also called Asian buffalo and Asiatic buffalo is a large bovine native to Southeast Asia. The species is listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List since 1986 as the remaining population totals less than 4,000, with an estimate of fewer than 2,500 mature individuals. A comprehensive monograph, first of its kind and authored by Dr Anwaruddin Choudhury was published in 2010. This work has put the global population at 3,400 of which 3,100 or 91% are in India, mostly Assam. The wild water buffalo is the ancestor of the domestic wa
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