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 water buffalo, and the second largest wild bovid, smaller only than the Gaur.
Wild water buffalo are larger and heavier than domestic buffalo, and weigh up to 1,200 kg (2,600 lb). Their head-to-body-length is 240 to 300 cm (94 to 120 in) with a 60 to 100 cm (24 to 39 in) long tail and a shoulder height of 150 to 190 cm (59 to 75 in). Both sexes carry horns that are heavy at the base and widely spreading up to 2 m (79 in) along the outer edges, exceeding in size the horns of any other living bovid. Their skin color is ash gray to black
Wild water buffalos occur in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand, and Cambodia with unconfirmed population in Myanmar.
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