Livestock
Water Buffalo
Also Known As Domestic Water Buffalo · Carabao The name for the swamp-type water buffalo breed of the Philippines specifically.
Buffalo and Yak
The draft animal of the flooded field: strong, placid and at home in mud no ox will work. The water buffalo powers rice paddies from the Indus to the Mekong, and its rich milk supplies most of the dairy of India and Pakistan and the original mozzarella of Italy. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Scientific Name Domestication RegionIndian subcontinent (river type) and China or Southeast Asia (swamp type) 1 Domesticated When (Circa)circa 3000 BC or earlier, river and swamp types separately 1 Primary UsesPaddy draft power, milk, meat, hides 1 Era
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This milestone records the domestication event of the water buffalo it is directly named for.
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1. Wikipedia: Water buffalo
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Phylogenetic analysis indicates that the river-type water buffalo probably originated in western India and was domesticated about 6,300 years ago, whereas the swamp-type originated independently from Mainland Southeast Asia and was domesticated about 3,000 to 7,000 years ago.
Water buffalo (Wikipedia)
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