Carabaos are often used for farming and, unlike cows, their milk is too good just to drink. Instead, it's almost always made into cheese or sweet treats called pastillas. In rural areas, like in the farming communities of Nueva Ecija, the farmers are reliant on the work of carabaos to tend fields like the ones pictured at the start of my article.
These creatures remind me a lot of small oxen (cows with horns). Carabaos can be various colors of grey, and they have short hair. Often, they are very muscular because they work the land.
I felt like the name and the animal didn't match. For some reason "water buffalo" had me picturing a wet buffalo, but that was not the case!
They live in warm, swamp-like places. Generally, they also live on farms because the farmers use them to work their fields.
