Animals

water buffalo

• a member of the cattle tribe, of swampy regions of S Asia, having widely spreading back-curving horns. Domesticated forms are used as draught animals Also called Asiatic buffalo Indian buffalo carabao
• also in parts of zimbabwe they are called the cape buffalo
• the height of one of these water buffalos is 5 to 6.2 feet standing up
• the water buffalo spends most of its day in submerged in muddy water

• this animal has been domesticated for about 5,000 years