Also -ao. [Native name.] A diminutive black buffalo, Bubalus mindorensis, peculiar to the island Mindoro, in the Philippines.
1898. Guide Mammalia, 68. Attention may likewise be directed to the small Philippine Buffalo…, or Tamarau.
1902. Geogr. Jrnl., XIX. 622. The Tamarao, the remarkable anoa-like animal peculiar to Mindoro.
