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Wallowing swamp buffaloes

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Wallowing swamp buffaloes

Buffaloes enjoy unimproved pastures and also somewhere to wallow in waterholes. These animals, farmed by Darcy Craze on the West Coast of the South Island, are in ideal conditions.

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Jim Esson, Exotic farm animals – Water buffaloes, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18709/wallowing-swamp-buffaloes (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jim Esson, published 1 March 2009.

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José Francisco Warth
24 February 2018
As I said before I´d like to know about buffaloes in N.Z! Prof. JF