Color Drawing of Newly Discovered Species of Buffalo (IMAGE)
Caption
The Field Museum commissioned a color reconstruction of what Bubalus cebuensis probably looked like. This drawing shows the extinct dwarf water buffalo in proportion to the tamaraw (a dwarf water buffalo that lives on the Philippine island of Mindoro); a full-sized water buffalo, and a human being. B. cebuensis, which once lived on the Philippine island of Cebu, shrunk due to 'island dwarfing,' whereby some large mammals confined to an island shrink over time in response to evolutionary factors, such as a limited food supply and a lack of predators.
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Illustration by Velizar Simeonovski, Courtesy of The Field Museum
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