Category: Blogs
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Internship experience with buffalo
My internship in observing water buffaloes offered a unique and fun experience to engage with these cute creatures in their natural habitat, Lantau Island, as they were allowed to go…
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Chapters from the Field
Subtropical summers aren’t just tough on us – feral water buffalo feel the heat too! But Hong Kong’s iconic animals have some slick strategies up their hooves for thriving in…
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Investigating the Lantau Island Water Buffaloes: An Unforgettable Fieldwork
As a second-year veterinary student, I was extremely honoured to be selected for an undergraduate project fellowship from the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB, see link here:…
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In the Shadows of Skyscrapers: the Unconventional Human-Buffalo Interplay in Hong Kong
As cultural anthropologists, we need to study animals and, more importantly, comprehend human-animal relationships beyond our species, HUMAN. Traditional anthropology has predominantly focused on humans alone, portraying animals as passive…
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Buffalo on the Beach
The Lantau island is highly rich in biodiversity and home to many different species, one of them being the buffalo. Interestingly, the not-so-big population of feral buffalo is one of…