🐃Wild water buffalo
The wild water buffalo, also called Asian buffalo, Asiatic buffalo and wild buffalo, is a large bovine native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It was first described in 1792.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 827 kg
- Body length
- 2.82 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 35 years
Everything we know about the Wild water buffalo
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass827 kgCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length2.82 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan35 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length8.99 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity2.1 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation315 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter size1COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range3.63 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density1.06 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l827 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 Wild water buffalo yet: shoulder height, 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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