Sung Yung-yi, a professor of animal husbandry at National Taiwan University explains that "water buffalos were brought over from the mainland by our forebears and have toiled away in the fields with farmers for years and years, so the feeling is that they're almost part of the family."
台灣大學畜牧系教授宋永義便表示，「水牛是先民自大陸帶過來的，加上長年和農民一起耕耘，培養出類似一家人的感情。」