WILD BUFFALO [Babulus Babalis]: The salty-black Asiatic wild buffalo is among the most impressive and magnificently built bovines found.  In addition, are the most powerful, heurists? Yet, the more proportionately built, of all the South Asian wild bovines.  It carries the largest horns of any surviving animal in the world today.

1. BEHAVIOUR: Wild buffaloes feed chiefly on grass, grazing in the mornings, in the evenings, and sometimes at night, lying up, by day in high grass or dense patches of cover, or submerged in a marsh or pool.  They are quite fearless and a bull may attack without provocation.  Scent is keenly developed in these animals, they have a good power of hearing and their sight is moderate.
2. FAMILY: The main pairing season is at the end of the rains.  Calves are usually born in March, April and May but have been observed in other months of the year.  They also frequently mate with their domesticated cosine.
3. FACTS: Wild buffaloes prefer tall grass jungle and swamps.  This offers them both food and shelter and pools of water to roll and wallow in.  In the Southern parts of their range they live on driver, herd ground, well broken up into streams and scattered with trees and open expense of grass.  Because of the loss of grasslands, the total population of wild buffalo in the sub-continent would, in all probability, be less than 2,000.