Jafarabadi Buffalo

The Jafarabadi buffalo is a domesticated riverine buffalo that originated in the Jafarabad region of Gujarat, India, with a worldwide population of roughly 600,000 making it one of the important buffalo breeds of India and Pakistan. According to the Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre, the breed descends from a hybrid of the African Cape buffalo and the Indian water buffalo, brought to British India for slaughter, an ancestry cited as a factor in the breed's semen quality issues. Jafarabadi buffaloes are recognized by their heavy heads and thick, flat horns that drop to the sides of the neck before curving upward toward the ears; the breed was the first buffalo variety exported to Brazil and remains one of four breeds raised there, and in India's Gir Forest National Park it also serves as prey for Asiatic lions.