{"id":367198,"date":"2026-07-11T16:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T11:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=367198"},"modified":"2026-07-11T16:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T11:16:08","slug":"wild-water-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wild-water-buffalo\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Water Buffalo\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><b>News: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Governing Body of National CAMPA approved four major wildlife and forestry conservation projects focusing on River Dolphins, Snow Leopards, Indian Rhinoceros, and Wild Water Buffalo to boost species population monitoring and habitat protection across India.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><b>About <\/b><b>Wild Water Buffalo\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSMeAhttTG28fqkOYMRqfkDdelMcz9zBo2w2k3gXrqRGFhT6ARLN2oGIKrQ&amp;s=10\" alt=\"Wild Water Buffalo (Bubalus arnee)\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: iNaturalist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>About:<\/strong> It is a <strong>large bovine<\/strong> <\/span>native to the<b> Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also called<\/span><b> Asian buffalo, Asiatic buffalo and wild buffalo.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Scientific name: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its scientific name is<\/span><b> Bubalus arnee.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Habitat: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It inhabits<strong> wet grasslands, swamps, flood plains and densely vegetated<\/strong> river valleys.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Distribution: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The wild water buffalo occurs in <\/span><b>India, Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand, and Cambodia, with an unconfirmed population in Myanmar.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been extirpated in <\/span><b>Bangladesh, Laos, Vietnam and Sri Lanka.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In India, it is largely restricted to in and around <\/span><b>Kaziranga, Manas and Dibru-Saikhowa National Parks, Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary and Bura Chapori Wildlife Sanctuary<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and in a few scattered pockets in <\/span><b>Assam,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and in and around <\/span><b>D&#8217;Ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A small population survives in <\/span><b>Balphakram National Park in Meghalaya, and in Chhattisgarh in <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indravati-national-park\/\">Indravati National Park<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/udanti-sitanadi-tiger-reserve\/\">Udanti Wildlife Sanctuary<\/a>.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Characteristics:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has an<\/span><b> ash-gray to black skin.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>moderately long, coarse and sparse hair<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is directed forward from <\/span><b>the haunches to the long and narrow head.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a <\/span><b>tuft on the forehead,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><b>ears are comparatively small.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Size: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its head-to-body-length is <\/span><b>240 to 300 cm (94 to 118 in).\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Both sexes carry horns <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that are heavy at the base and<\/span><b> widely spreading up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) along the outer edges, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">exceeding in size the horns of any other living bovid.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tip of the <\/span><b>tail is bushy and the hooves are large and splayed.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Weight:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It weighs from<\/span><b> 600 to 1,200 kg.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is among the<\/span><b> heaviest living wild bovid species<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and is slightly smaller than gaur.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Diet: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It prefers <\/span><b>grazing on grasses and sedges<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but also <\/span><b>eats herbs, fruits, bark, and foliage. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, <\/span><b>it feeds on crops like rice, sugarcane, and jute,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> often causing significant damage.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Behaviour: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is both <\/span><strong>diurnal and nocturnal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Threat: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The wild water buffalo&#8217;s decline is driven by:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Habitat loss<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Colonial-era sport hunting, and\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Livestock pressures<\/strong> like disease, competition, and interbreeding<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Conservation status<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN: Endangered\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>CITES: Appendix III<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Governing Body of National CAMPA approved four major wildlife and forestry conservation projects focusing on River Dolphins, Snow Leopards, Indian Rhinoceros, and Wild Water Buffalo to boost species population monitoring and habitat protection across India. About Wild Water Buffalo\u00a0 About: It is a large bovine native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wild-water-buffalo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wild Water Buffalo\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,12039,11834],"tags":[11872,3590],"class_list":["post-367198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","category-species-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}