A zoo in Bergisch Gladbach
Water buffalo are not that exotic in Europe. The next traditional pasture areas are Italy and the Balkans. The winter-mild Rhenish climate definitely agrees with the animals. No wonder, because even in Germany once lived wild water buffalo, only in the course of the Ice Age, they died here. The migration background of the Bergisch Büffel is quickly told: They spent their childhood in the Wahner Heide, where her flock has been at home for several years. The origin of the heath buffalo was again Romania, where water buffalo have been kept for centuries as livestock.
