Water buffalo come home to S.C.'s Middleton Place (AP)

From The Associated Press through USA Today:

By Bruce Smith, Associated Press Writer

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The story of the first water buffalo in the United States is a little-known tale of a Southern rice plantation, Yankee barbecue and New York's Central Park Zoo. Now, 150 years later, the beasts are back, this time as part of a historical exhibit.

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