Baby Water Buffalo for Saturday Critter

 

On the green hill it stood — a baby water buffalo, small as a misplaced shadow against the sweep of pasture, its dark hide set in luminous contrast to the grass. The slope rolled gently beneath its tentative hooves, and the wind moved through the blades in silver waves, as if the earth itself were breathing around it.

Its body was still learning its proportions — long legs slightly uncertain, knees knuckled with youth, the spine faintly ridged beneath a soft, velvety coat. Calves of the Water buffalo (often called water buffalo calves rather than “puppies”) are typically born weighing between 35 and 45 kilograms, sturdy from the outset, yet carrying an unmistakable tenderness in their gait. Their ears are wide and pliant, flicking at flies with exaggerated seriousness; their eyes, large and liquid, seem perpetually astonished by the scale of the world.

Sony A7RV

FE 20-70mm f4 G

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