The buffalo, an animal as sacred as it is vital to agriculture | The domestication of epic horns

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Large hooves, almost hairless, a greasy hide, a powerful swimmer's body, and disease resistance: the Asian water buffalo is the king of the wetlands. Since its domestication around 5,000 years ago in Southeast Asia on the Indian subcontinent, the buffalo have travelled around the world with us. It has changed the lives of people on all continents. By accompanying us again and again in this desire to conquer the wetlands of the planet, it has succeeded in establishing itself everywhere and sometimes even beyond our expectations.
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Chapters
▷ 0:00:00 - Intro
▷ 0:02:10 - In Thailand, where the the water buffalo is still at the heart of many Thai families’ daily life
▷ 0:10:32 - Relict population of wild buffaloes are surviving despite hunting and epidemics
▷ 0:16:36 - Retracing the origins of the wild water buffalo
▷ 0:18:20 - In Egypt, the Mediterranean river buffalo are reared mainly for milk, the white gold of the Nile Delta
▷ 0:25:10 - In Bali, Indonesia, the buffalo is celebrated in religious ceremonies
▷ 0:28:52 - The Makepung, buffalo races celebrating a bond uniting humans and their animals
▷ 0:32:14 - The Governor's Cup, the most famous Makepung Cikar race
▷ 0:39:03 - In the Brazilian wetlands, the buffalo from a marginal population to an essential component of local life
▷ 0:49:08 - Epilogue
▷ 0:50:24 - Credits

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At the dawn of time, their hoof prints mingle with those of Humans. Step after step, century after century, the great bovine family has accompanied humankind. As essential partners on our greatest territorial conquests, they continue to change the world at our side even today.

In the beginning, 18 million years ago, there lived a tiny, shy, forest-dwelling horned mammal. All alone, through the laws of evolution, this small antelope becomes the ancestor of the Aurochs, now extinct, which turned humans from the status of hunter-gatherers to that of breeders. Then the ox, yak, buffalo and zebu followed. These descendants are now pivotal elements in many cultures across the world. And against a background of species disappearing from the Earth, they are becoming the biggest land mammals.

From their wild forms to the multiple domestic breeds they produced, via the selective hand of humans, the bovines have thus gone side by side with our civilizations throughout our History. This series takes us along their trail.

Original title: Moo! the Epic Horns - The Buffalo and the Conquest of the Westlands
A film by Xavier Lefebvre

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