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[[File:Jafarabadi buffalo.jpg|thumb|A Jafarabadi buffalo]]<br />
'''Jafarabadi buffalo''' is a riverine buffalo that originated in [[Gujarat]], [[India]].<ref name=presicce>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y9GbDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA235|title=The Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) - Production and Research|first=Giorgio A.|last=Presicce|date=31 March 2017|publisher=Bentham Science Publishers|isbn=9781681084176|via=Google Books}}</ref> It is estimated that there are about 25,000 Jafarabadi buffaloes in the world.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rife|first1=David Cecil|title=The water buffalo of India and Pakistan|date=1959|publisher=International Cooperation Administration|page=31|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=egVqiiaYX9IC|language=en}}</ref> It is one of the important buffalo breeds of India and [[Pakistan]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FxYrS17mZGMC&pg=PA102|title=Smallholder Dairying in the Tropics|first1=Lindsay|last1=Falvey|first2=Haran|last2=Hanthalakkhan|date=1 January 1999|publisher=ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)|isbn=9780734014320|via=Google Books}}</ref> The [https://www.gowandi.com/058_jafarabadi-buffalo/ Jafarabadi buffalo] is also the first buffalo breed exported to [[Brazil]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2UEJDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA963|title=Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding, 2 Volume Pack|first1=Valerie|last1=Porter|first2=Lawrence|last2=Alderson|first3=Stephen J. G.|last3=Hall|first4=D. Phillip|last4=Sponenberg|date=9 March 2016|publisher=CABI|isbn=9781845934668|via=Google Books}}</ref> and is also one of the four buffalo breeds raised in Brazil as of 2017, the others being [[Italian Mediterranean buffalo|Mediterranean]], [[Murrah buffalo|Murrah]] and [[swamp buffalo]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IPo2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA53|title=The Brazilian Microbiome: Current Status and Perspectives|first1=Victor|last1=Pylro|first2=Luiz|last2=Roesch|date=21 September 2017|publisher=Springer|isbn=9783319599977|via=Google Books}}</ref><br />
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The [[National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources|Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre]] states that the Jafarabadi buffalo is a hybrid of the [[African buffalo|African cape buffalo]] and the [[water buffalo|Indian water buffalo]], the former originally been brought to British India for slaughtering.<ref name=INSDC/> The Centre notes this to be one of the major reasons for the buffalo's poor semen quality.<ref name=INSDC/> The hybrid buffalos were widely present in [[Jafarabad State|Jafarabad]], and were hence named as Jafarabadi buffalo.<ref name=INSDC>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sTgeAQAAMAAJ|title=Indian Science Abstracts|publisher=Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre|year=2006|page=156}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hill|first1=Desmond|title=Cattle and Buffalo Meat Production in the Tropics|date=1988|publisher=Longman Scientific & Technical|isbn=9780582608955|page=41-44|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lNcqAQAAMAAJ|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Mammals of South Asia]]<br />
[[Category:Mammals of India]]<br />
[[Category:Mammals of Brazil]]<br />
[[Category:Mammals of Pakistan]]<br />
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