"Ai ba?o cha~n tra^u la` kho^?. Cha~n tra^u su?o?'ng la~'m chu?'. Ngo^`i mi`nh tra^u pha^'t ngo.n co?` lau. Ro^'i mie^.ng ha't nge^u ngao....
(Who can say taking care of buffaloes is a painful chore Actually it's a nice life... I can ride on the buffalo, shrub in hand Waving it like a flag while uttering some songs....
Buffaloes are considered faithful and painstaking . The Vietnamese zodiac describes the people born under the sign of this animal, as constant, steady, laborious and stubborn These complimentary qualifiers are also used to describe the buffaloes.
These bovine friends are quite appreciated and well taken care of, in Vietnam, because they are the necessary work and life companions of the Vietnamese farmers. Without buffaloes, there will be no work in the rice paddies. Without planting rice, there will be famine. The buffalo is a sacred animal.
Such considerations are unfortunately not taken the same way , in the United States, one even hears about hazing this undesirable cattle.
http://www.wildrockies.org/buffalo/field...
and slaughtering the last herd of wild buffaloes under the pretext they cause brucellosis of livestock is a common occurrence; although no such accusations were proven scientifically..
In reality
" the buffalo co-evolved with the Great Plains grasslands and are revered as sacred by tribal peoples from the eastern seaboard to the Pacific Northwest. Once numbering 60 million the great herds were systematically decimated in the 1800's and numbered less than 400 by the turn of the century. Some of these buffalo found refuge in Yellowstone National Park--one of the last populations of wild buffalo in the U.S.
Let us look further into the life of the buffalo in the United States: http://www.wildrockies.org/cmcr/campaign...
"For the past decade the State of Montana has adopted a shoot and kill management policy of buffalo migrating out of Yellowstone Park in search of winter forage. During the winter of 1996- 1997, Montana Department of Livestock officials slaughtered over 1,100 buffalo from a population of 3,500. Some were captured, penned, sent to slaughterhouses, butchered, and auctioned off. Others were shot on public and private lands outside Yellowstone Park. Ostensibly, buffalo are targeted for slaughter based on the unscientific rationale that they will transmit brucellosis to domesticated cattle."
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