Unlike the water-buffalo, it does not bathe in water or wallow in mud.
They had figured out how to get milk out of water buffalo by breeding a new kind of water buffalo.
Further down the road we tried a patch of rice paddy where a group of water buffalo were grazing.
However in most countries the range is limited to cow, ewe, goat and (increasingly) water buffalo milk cheeses.
For those wishing to try something out of the ordinary there is also ostrich and water buffalo meat !