Cheers Matt,

Last week a friend of mine shot a good Carabao similar to a good Australian bull, but said he saw a huge Carabao bull. They pursued the bull into the marshes on horseback, but it caught a peao (cowboy) and killed its horse. So big was the bull that we are trying to find a date to go back in december.

The earliest Marajo island buffalo population (and the wildest one) are Carabao's. They are called the "rosilho" buffalo, bacause some of them are of a pinkish color.

There is a paper about the genetic makeup of buffalo populations using DNA analysis. It suggests that there are different lines of buffalo that were domesticated. In other words, not all tamed buffalo came from one domestication event.

Dante