Wild Water Buffalo: Bubalus arnee
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www.wildcattleconservation.org | Wild Water Buffalo Bubalus arnee Linnaeus, 1758 Wild buffalo are able to interbreed completely with domestic buffalo. The name is applied to domestic populations, but some authors also use it for wild animals. Anatomical and behavioural traits have been suggested as a means of differentiating wild buffalo from backcrossed individuals (Heinen, 2002), but such discrimination is often difficult, and phenotypic characteristics alone are not sufficient to define pure wild animals. Some hybrid individuals retain wild characteristics and hence cannot be differentiated from purely wild individuals. Hybrid and wild buffaloes have extensive overlap in their supposedly discriminatory characteristics (Muley, 2001; Flamand et al., 2003).
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