Mouflon Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the Canary Islands, and even some northern European countries such as Denmark, Sweden and Finland. A small colony exists in the remote Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, and on the Veliki Brijun Island in the Brijuni Archipelago of the Istrian Peninsula in Croatia. In South America, mouflon have been introduced into central Chile and Argentina. Since the 1980s, they have also been successfully introduced to game ranches in North America for the purpose of hunting; however, on game ranches, purebreds are rare, as mouflon interbreed with domestic sheep and bighorn
Wild water buffalo International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature placed "Bubalus arnee" on the "Official List of Specific Names in Zoology", recognizing the validity of this name for a wild species. Most authors have adopted the binomen "Bubalus arnee" for the wild water buffalo as valid for the taxon. Only a few DNA sequences are available from wild water buffalo populations. Wild populations are considered to be the progenitor of modern domesticated water buffalo, but the genetic variation within "B. arnee" is unclear, and also how they are related to the domesticated river and swamp forms. Wild water buffalo The wild water buffalo ("Bubalus