Wild Water Buffalo

The wild water buffalo is the ancestor of the domestic water buffalo and one of the largest bovines in the world, with adult males weighing up to 1,200 kg. It inhabits alluvial grasslands and river valleys in South and Southeast Asia, where it depends on wetland habitats. Now Endangered, a pure-bred wild population numbers fewer than 4,000, with the largest remaining population in Assam's Kaziranga National Park.