The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we’ve enlisted to do the work we couldn’t handle – the horse, donkey, elephant, camel, water buffalo, ox, yak – is an herbivore… whose huge muscles were built from plant protein, and whose strong bones got that way, and stayed that way, from grazing on grass and eating other vegetables.
Most of the almost 200 million buffalos worldwide that are mapped here are the Asiatic water buffalo and the African buffalo. More than half of the global buffalo population lives in India: more than double the number of buffalos live here than in the two following countries – Pakistan and China – combined. South and South-East Asia are the main regions using buffalos in agriculture, followed by Africa. Since this data shows only the domesticated buffalos and excludes the wild bison, North America disappears on this map.
