🐃Water buffalo
The water buffalo, also called domestic water buffalo, Asian water buffalo, and Asiatic water buffalo, is a large domesticated bovine originating in South and Southeast Asia descended from the wild water buffalo. Today, it is also kept in regions including Italy, the Balkans, Australia, the Americas, and parts of Africa. Two extant types of water buffalo are recognized, based on morphological and behavioural criteria: the river buffalo of the Indian subcontinent and further west to the Balkans, Egypt, and Italy; and the swamp buffalo from Assam in the west through Southeast Asia to the Yangtze Valley of China in the east.
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The IUCN Red List has not assessed Bubalus bubalis yet.
- Body mass
- 725 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- 1.7 m
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 35 years
Everything we know about the Water buffalo
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass725 kgAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Shoulder height1.7 m1.5–1.9 m · typical rangenot statedDetails ↓Hide ↑
"Individuals stand 1.5 to 1.9 m in height at the shoulder, and have large feet with splayed hooves." Range-only; value is the midpoint. Account covers the species broadly; domestic river/swamp buffalo sit toward or below the low end.
Source: Roth 2004, Animal Diversity Web account: Bubalus bubalis, https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Bubalus_bubalis/ · see citation
Maximum lifespan35 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Gestation311 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter size1AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l725 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Water buffalo yet: body length, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderArtiodactyla
- ›familyBovidae
- ›genusBubalus
- ›speciesBubalus bubalis
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- subfamilyBovinae
- genusBubalus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderRuminantia
- infraorderPecora
- familyBovidae
- subfamilyBovinae
- genusBubalus
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