Endangered
Lowland anoa
Bubalus depressicornis
The lowland anoa is a buffalo endemic to Sulawesi.
Appearance
According to Groves (1969), the lowland anoa can be told apart from the other species by being larger, having a triangular horn cross-section, having sparse as opposed to thick and woolly hair, and always having white markings on the face and legs.
It stands barely over 90 cm (35 in) at the shoulder and weighs between 150–300 kg (330–660 lb).
Range and habitat
The lowland anoa is a buffalo endemic to Sulawesi. Its closest relative is the mountain anoa, and it is still a debate as to whether the two are the same species or not.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Fewer than 5,000 animals of each species likely remain. Reasons for their decline include hunting for hides, horns, and meat by the local peoples and loss of habitat due to the advancement of settlement. The leading cause of their population decline is hunting by local villagers for meat, with habitat loss also being significant.
This habitat fragmentation also alters the natural mixing of populations of the anoa.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Lowland anoa is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Lowland anoa, Wikidata item Q317393. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
