Talk:Water buffalo

message: Is there a reason for the capitalization of the second word in this title, even though Wikipedia:Naming conventions says not to capitalize second and subsequent nouns? I'm guessing this is in error, but wanted to check here first. Heimstern Läufer 23:10, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've moved it since I got no reason for it to be capitalized. Heimstern Läufer 22:15, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

text: The wild population is endangered.  There are plenty of domesticated ones. Steve Dufour 07:31, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I would prefer the Name Domestic water buffalo or Domestic buffalo for this article, independently of capitalization or not. Domestic buffaloes occur also in Europe (so Asian is wrong) and actually it is the only form of buffalo to have been domesticated (So Water is dispensable).--Altaileopard 10:04, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title? 

message: We now know that the Swamp Buffalo (Bubalus carabanensis) has 48 chromosomes, and the River Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) has 50 chromosomes, why are we labeling them both as Water buffalo?  Wouldn't it be more accurate to put the Swamp buffalos in Swamp Buffalo, and the River buffalos in River buffalo?  Dionyseus 22:39, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shouldn't it be seperated by species? 

message: Most of the info in this section should be deleted since it is about the wild buffalo not the domestic buffalo. I didn't want to just delete a big portion without discussing first. The info on the wild buffalo is repeated word for word in its own article.Monkeysocks2 (talk) 19:06, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anatomical Section 

message: *The IUCN Red list of threatened species classifies "Wild Water Buffalo" as "Endangered"
*Animal Info - Wild Asian (Water) Buffalo - Status: Endangered; By: Paul Massicot
Atulsnischal 00:54, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference

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message: " ... apart from their use as draft and dairy animals, are also used to pull bullock carts in the developing world ..."
First, pulling a bullock cart IS use as a draft animal.
The bit about "the developing world" is condescending west-centric, and does NOT belong.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.68.134.1 (talk) 14:48, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  draft 

message: Moved page to rename: Domestic Water Buffalo - The common name of the animal is "Water buffalo" and it is famous for remaining submerged in water when ever it can.
Atulsnischal (talk) 23:52, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's fine with me, I thought the old name was rather odd myself. Steven Walling (talk) 00:02, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Move from "Domestic buffalo" to "Domestic water buffalo"

message: In American English there is no doubt that, for describing a quantity of bovine critters, the plural adjective "head" applies and that the plural adjective "heads" does not apply. For non-bovine critters, this is not the rule. "Henry VIII chopped off several heads of family members" is correct, but "Henry VIII chopped of several head of family members" is not correct. On the other hand, "a bazillion head of buffaloes" is correct, but "a bazzilion heads" is wrong; unless this occurs within a quote.  If it is quotational, then the content of the quote trumps the proper nonquational usage.  "Us guys is the best team in the world" as quoted (seemingly ever year) by a member of the Super Bowl champion team is the accurate quote, regardless of the fact that "Our players comprise the best team in the world" is the proper syntactical expression of the sense that the speaker intended to articulate.  Absent a counter-argument I will revert this in a few days. and ... thanks for fixing my mangled cite in footnote 1. Stwiso (talk) 04:08, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think there's any difference between bovine and other animals in the use of "head" for counting – it's used the same way for all animals for which it is used at all.  "Heads" in the Henry situation are actual heads (plural noun), not a count of people; a noun too I think (it would have to be "beheaded several head of queens").  There are however only certain animals for which "head" seems to be used for counting – I think it's usually restricted to largish herding herbivores – you can have so many head of antelope, elephant, sheep or llamas, but not tigers, crocodiles, herring – or indeed queens. I do agree that the quote trumps the usage, unless it's an obvious mistake, such as, for example, a wrong translation or poor spelling.  Do we know what the source actually does say?  Richard New Forest (talk) 14:00, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The quote is accurate. Stwiso (talk) 22:16, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "Heads" versus "head" of buffaloes

message: Right at the end of the introduction, it says, "The African buffalo is not closely related to the water buffalo, and its ancestry remains unclear." When the word "its" is used, does it mean that the African buffalo's ancestry isn't clear or the water buffalo's. I think that using FORMER or LATTER instead of ITS is better.--Pgecaj (talk) 04:13, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It was a little ambiguous – I've clarified it.  Please feel free to improve Wikipedia yourself where you can.  Richard New Forest (talk) 12:08, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  African buffalo ancestry 

message: The article has nothing about water buffalo in Brazil.Beyond doubt, water buffalo is an important domestic animal in Brazil, where more than 3,000,000 heads exists in farms.Agre22 (talk) 12:10, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Water Buffalo in Brazil

message: Changed "South China" to  "South China Sea" in the "Fighting festivals" section near the bottom of the  page. Feel free to change it if I am wrong. 06:29, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changed "South China" to  "South China Sea" 

message: Im getting this halfway through the page.
Adult Water Buffalo range in size from 400 to 900 kg (880 to Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "," lb)
Seems to be some sort of auto generated error.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.192.43.159 (talk) 12:39, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not getting that at all, but "Adult Water Buffalo range in size from 400 to 900 kg (880 to 2,000 lb) for the domestic breeds" etc.  Are you still getting the error?  If not, I suspect a glitch in the WP software or a temporary error in the template.  Richard New Forest (talk) 21:21, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Unrecognised punctuation character

message: Egypt removed due to broad, sweeping claims with no sources.  The section claimed that "water buffalo is the main source of red meat" in Egypt, when other sources paint a different story.  It was a blurb that was completely irrelevant to the article and has thus been removed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.158.142.187 (talk) 18:15, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Egypt

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message: Hi all editors and viewers! I decided to place the following table here because a full citation is pending since more than 4 years, and also because the constituent values listed imply that constituents are stable, which is not not the case. They vary between water buffalo breeds, and also depend on feeding. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 19:16, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Water buffalo milk 

message: Thank you to the editor that changed the lead image after I had recently changed it.  I am not disputing this change whatsoever, but for my own peace of mind, could you clarify which species is the feral buffalo in Australia.  If it is not a water buffalo, perhaps it should be deleted completely from this article to avoid confusion.  If it is a wild water buffalo, it might be an appropriate image for that article.__DrChrissy (talk) 17:40, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Australia's feral water buffaloes are Bubalus bubalis. So this image's title "WildWaterBuffalo(Bubalus bubalis arnee)" is incorrect and mislead quite a few editors to use it in the taxobox of the wild water buffalo article. Renaming this jpg file to e.g. "feral-water-buffalo-Australia" would help to avoid future confusion. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 12:03, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I see now.  Thank you very much for clarifying this.__DrChrissy (talk) 16:41, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead image 

message: The article for "carabao" states that this species is the "Bubalus bubalis" and exists only in the Philippines and Guam. But this article for "water buffalo" also states that it is Bubalus bubalis and exists all over Asia... Which is it?24.117.62.13 (talk) 19:52, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confused? 

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thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 17 September 2022 

message: The research section says the second institute to clone the water buffalo did so in 2016, while we list two other institutes having done so prior to 2016, which is correct? XeCyranium (talk) 20:43, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: in vitro fertilization is not cloning. WAIT, the way the first paragraph is written does seem to suggest that, but the citation only indicates an attempt to do so. I will fix the text. Artoria2e5 🌉 07:47, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many clones?