Buffalo are big,strong, dark-coloured mammals with huge horns. african buffalo live in herds of several hunderd usually near water, as they love to wallow in mud. african buffalo have very bad tempers, so humans never managed to tame them. water buffalo are found in the wetter areas of Asia. few are found in the wild now and they are mostly kept as farm animals. water buffalo have been domesticated for 3,000 years. they are used to pull carts an ploughs, but they can be kept for their meat, milk, and hides, pnfew survive in the wild asia, but buffalo are released to run free in the swamps of northern territory of australia