The Carabao

Carabao is considered as national animal of the Philippines and usually found in the farm.It is a Swamp type domestic water buffalo.Its life span is 18 to 20 years and the female carabao can deliver one calf each year.

Sometimes They have white or yellowish hair on a pinkish skin but the eyes, hoofs and mouth are dark, and the skin may be speckled. They are slightly bigger and have larger horns.

The carabao cools itself by lying in a waterhole or mud during the heat of the day. Mud, caked on to its body, also protects it from bothersome insects. 

 

 

 


 This picture shows that the carabaos provide there necessary labor that allowed Filipino farmers to grow rice and other staples. Carabaos used for farming to pull the plow or by pulling the carts and other equipment used by farming.Carabao is considered as a very hardworking animals they helped farmers to worked in the farm.