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By Avi Kumar

A water buffalo in the Yala National Park
New water buffalo species in Sri Lanka
For a long time, we believed that the water buffalo was not native to Sri Lanka, but introduced from the Asian mainland. However, recent DNA evidence suggests that an indigenous species also existed. A herd in the Kumana National Park Conservation Biologist, Prof Mayuri Wijesinghe (Department of Zoology and Environment Sciences, University of Colombo) in an...
12 June, 2022
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