Asian Water Buffalo

Range

Native to parts of Asia including Nepal, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and Bhutan. Domesticated water buffalo can be found widespread throughout most of Asia.

Facts

They have wide splayed hooves to prevent them from sinking too deeply in the mud and allow them to move about in wetlands and swamps.

Young female water buffalo will stay with their mother’s herd for the duration of their lives whereas young bulls will create bachelor herds after 3 years.

The remaining population of wild water buffalo totals less than 4,000. A population decline of at least 50% over the last three generations and is projected to continue.