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Water Buffalo on Explore the Wild

Explore the Wild is a Nature series produced by www.VideoFort.com in partnership with REP Interactive. In this series, VideoFort will take you on a tour of the world's most exotic locations and teach you about the planet's most exotic animals. In this episode on Explore the Wild, we feature Water Buffalo. You will learn interesting facts about the species and their natural habitat. http://www.VideoFort.com Water Buffalo The water buffalo also commonly known as the Asian buffalo are comprised of two subspecies: the wild water buffalo, a humongous animal, reaching up to nearly 3 meters long, 2 meters tall, and weighing up to 1,200kg, and the domestic Asian water buffalo, a smaller breed with a longer life span, and is most likely the ancestor of the wild water buffalo. The wild water buffalo is one of the largest species of bovid in the world, surpassed only by the Gaur. Wild water buffalo are well suited for tilling rice fields, as they thrive on aquatic plants such as: reeds, giant cane, bulrush, water hyacinth and marsh grass-- tall flowering plants. Some of these are of great value to locals, while others are a major problem in tropical valleys, which are kept clear by the water buffalo. Water buffalo are both diurnal and nocturnal, living in herds, usually comprised of their own sexes: females in larger groups of up to 30 with their offspring and males creating bachelor groups of up to 10. They are seasonal breeders, in most of their age ranges, typically mating in October and November. After mating, the dominant males are subsequently driven off by their female counterpart. The female’s gestation period lasts 10 to 11 months, with an interbirth interval of one year. Sexual maturity in males is 18 months, while females are at 3 years of age. The maximum known lifespan is 25 years old in the wild. The wild water buffalo was first classified as “Endangered” in 1986 -- the remaining population today continues to decline due to: the large amount of interbreeding with feral and domestic buffalo, the loss of their habitat due to agriculture and hydropower development, disease spread by domestic stock, the degradation of wetlands due to invasive species, and hunting. The estimated global amount of wild water buffalo is now 3,400 individuals, with a projected decline of 50% over the next 3 generations.