Talk:Wild Asian Water Buffalo

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[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.

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Atulsnischal 00:52, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wild Asian Water Buffalo

Please develop this article whenever you all can find time, Thanks Atulsnischal 01:00, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rename

Article should be renamed to Asian Water Buffalo or just use the scientific name. The use of the word "wild" is anthropocentric and hideously POV. Otherwise, we'd just label every non-domesticated species article "wild xxxx". i.e. lion would be "wild lion", "wild goblin shark", "wild staphylococcus aureus" etc. Shrumster 22:44, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

I would tend to agree, it seems the standard is to name the wild species without a qualifier and the domesticated species with the qualifier Domestic.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 04:00, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Comments re Cape Buffalo

just would like to make a comment. How come 25% of the topics content belongs to syncerus caffer? this thread is supposed to explain the biology of the water buffalo ONLY... And one more thing, expand the information - it seems that basing from given facts, the water buffalo is a most docile herbivore. This is false, as hunters rated it as one of the fiercest animal in all of Asia, in the wild state that is. It is just as dangerous towards man as it's african counterpart is. Note also that there are various subspecies of this animal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.109.77.55 (talk) 00:35, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

I think you are referring to the Cape Buffalo, an entirely different genus. I do not believe the Asian Water Buffalo exists in the wild in Africa.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 02:31, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

(re-adding comments that were posted over prior comments - Please do not refactor discussions)


Yeah, I was commenting on the fact that WHY DOES SYNCERUS CAFFER a.k.a. Cape buffalo makes up 25% of the article? I think it's quite obvious that this article should discuss the water buffalo only. Wild water buffaloes exist in the wild, you should have red the article.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.109.77.55 (talk • contribs) 06:07, 5 March 2008

Maybe I'm blind, but I see a single reference to the Cape Buffalo in the article, which does need to be cleaned up. The article is short but that one sentence doesn't seem to be to be 25%. If you see other references to the Cape Buffalo, or anything else that does not belong, Fixit!, please.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 16:35, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] {{WPFarm}} - Yes, we really do want this tag here

Just so nobody tells me, I know that this is a different animal from the Domestic Water Buffalo, however, it is standard for WP:FARM to tag the talk pages of articles about the immediate wild ancestors of the various livestock species (thus Domestic Goose and Greylag Goose for another example).--Doug.(talk • contribs) 02:10, 27 October 2007 (UTC)