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Reading this, I thought some madman was milking a Cape water buffalo, which have been known to beat lions in 1-v-1 fights, and is only capable of one emotion: murder.

But turns out this milk is from the Asian water buffalo, which is even bigger than the African kind, but can be domesticated.

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I was surprised to find that there is an Italian Mediterranean buffalo species/breed [1] that is thought to be descended from an altogether distinct lineage that went extinct around the last ice age [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Mediterranean_buffalo

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubalus_murrensis

Not to rain on your buffalo vs lion parade, but the Cape buffalo is a sub-species of the African buffalo, not the water buffalo. There's no such thing as a Cape water buffalo.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-10-23

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brontosaurus-...

I stand corrected. I meant Cape buffalo, member of the Big Five, and certainly unmilkable

I've always wondered, who was the first person to milk a cow, and then...drink it?

This reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes comic: https://www.reddit.com/r/calvinandhobbes/comments/1gc8af/why...

I'm sure there was an element of relating to how humans do the same thing but we can make this thing always produce milk and we can't with humans

"Italian" (and Egyptian) water buffaloes are not really bigger than regular cows. They are said to have come to the Middle East then to Italy through gifts from the Arabs or by Crusaders I believe.

I saw an Asian water buffalo almost gore Scott Stokely in Cambodia. Fortunately it was on a short rope and when it’s farmer mama came out and slapped it, it calmed down. The thing was probably 3 tons!

Fun fact: in Thailand, a common derogatory term for westerners, or any kind of big, stupid creature, is water buffalo (ควาย khwai).

Malayalam speaker here, പോത്ത് (potthu) for big and/or clumsy people.

Now someone’s gonna go milk Cape buffalo to make deadly lion smashing death buffalo cheese to sell on Joe Rogan.

Kinda like that killer bee honey thing.

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