Talk:Domestic buffalo

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[edit] Assam buffalo

The first glimpse of the wild water buffalo of Northern India, the largest of all wild buffaloes in the world:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KG7tgRN2UNc

As u can see, they are much larger than the cape buffalo, as well as common water buffaloes. spelled buffalo wrong idiot

[edit] Title?

Is there a reason for the capitalization of the second word in this title, even though Wikipedia:Naming conventions says not to capitalize second and subsequent nouns? I'm guessing this is in error, but wanted to check here first. Heimstern Läufer 23:10, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

I've moved it since I got no reason for it to be capitalized. Heimstern Läufer 22:15, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Why is the water buffalo an endangered species if there are 141,000,000 in Asian alone? Benfranklinlover 04:02, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

The wild population is endangered. There are plenty of domesticated ones. Steve Dufour 07:31, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
I would prefer the Name Domestic water buffalo or Domestic buffalo for this article, independently of capitalization or not. Domestic buffaloes occur also in Europe (so Asian is wrong) and actually it is the only form of buffalo to have been domesticated (So Water is dispensable).--Altaileopard 10:04, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Shouldn't it be seperated by species?

We now know that the Swamp Buffalo (Bubalus carabanensis) has 48 chromosomes, and the River Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) has 50 chromosomes, why are we labeling them both as Water buffalo? Wouldn't it be more accurate to put the Swamp buffalos in Swamp Buffalo, and the River buffalos in River buffalo? Dionyseus 22:39, 13 February 2007 (UTC)


Tiger Hunting Article needs to be edited. A single tiger CAN'T kill a frull grown buffalo! That's just stupid. There is no evidence at all to support this.

Why you think so?????????????????

[edit] US ARMY Water Buffalo

This article should be made. ANYONE who has served more than a month in the army knows the term "water buffalo". Nearly all units have multiple M112 500 Gallon tanks that are towed behind, usually, a five ton truck. Too little time for me to make the article. I hope a military-fan might do the honor.

[edit] Please Separate: 1) "WILD" Asian Water Buffalo from 2) "Domestic Asian Water Buffalo"

Please create a separate article for:

The actual common full name for it is "Wild Asian Water Buffalo", it is endangered (and it is little known outside wildlife circles), see IUCN Red List, while Domestic Asian Water Buffalo selectively bred for thousands of years is very famous and numbers in millions and has various livestock breeds. There are many breeds of domestic water buffalo.

[edit] Anatomical Section

Most of the info in this section should be deleted since it is about the wild buffalo not the domestic buffalo. I didn't want to just delete a big portion without discussing first. The info on the wild buffalo is repeated word for word in its own article.Monkeysocks2 (talk) 19:06, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reference

Atulsnischal 00:54, 19 September 2007 (UTC)