Jafarabadi buffalo

A herd of Jafarabadi and Murrah buffaloes in Brazil
A female Jafarabadi buffalo in India.

The Jafarabadi buffalo, Jaffrabadi buffalo or Gir buffalo[1] is a domesticated riverine buffalo that originated in Gujarat, India.[2] The most recent estimates reveal that there are around 600,000 Jafarabadi buffaloes in the world.[3][4] It is one of the important buffalo breeds of India and Pakistan.[5] The Jafarabadi buffalo is also the first buffalo breed exported to Brazil,[6] and is also one of the four buffalo breeds raised in Brazil as of 2017, the others being Mediterranean, Murrah and swamp buffalo.[7]

The Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre states that the Jafarabadi buffalo is a hybrid of the African Cape buffalo and the Indian water buffalo, the former originally been brought to British India for slaughtering.[8] The Centre notes this to be one of the major reasons for the buffalo's poor semen quality.[8] The hybrid buffaloes were widely present in Jafarabad, and were hence named as Jafarabadi buffalo.[8] Jafarabadi buffaloes have heavy heads with fairly large, thick, flat horns, which drop on the sides of the neck and go on upwards till the ears.[9]

This is one of the water buffalo breeds that falls prey to Asiatic lions in the Gir Forest National Park.

References

  1. ↑ "Jaffarabadi | Buffalopedia". Retrieved 21 April 2022.
  2. ↑ Presicce, Giorgio A. (31 March 2017). The Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) – Production and Research. Bentham Science Publishers. ISBN 9781681084176.
  3. ↑ Borghese, Antonio (2005). "Buffalo Production and Research" (PDF). REU Technical Series (67): 59.
  4. ↑ Rife, David Cecil (1959). The water buffalo of India and Pakistan. International Cooperation Administration. p. 31.
  5. ↑ Falvey, Lindsay; Hanthalakkhan, Haran (1 January 1999). Smallholder Dairying in the Tropics. ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). ISBN 9780734014320.
  6. ↑ Porter, Valerie; Alderson, Lawrence; Hall, Stephen J. G.; Sponenberg, D. Phillip (9 March 2016). Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding, 2 Volume Pack. CABI. ISBN 9781845934668.
  7. ↑ Pylro, Victor; Roesch, Luiz (21 September 2017). The Brazilian Microbiome: Current Status and Perspectives. Springer. ISBN 9783319599977.
  8. 1 2 3 "Indian Science Abstracts". Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre. 2006. p. 156.
  9. ↑ Hill, Desmond (1988). Cattle and Buffalo Meat Production in the Tropics. Longman Scientific & Technical. pp. 41–44. ISBN 9780582608955.
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