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Cattle are large domesticated ungulates that are most commonly classified as Bos taurus. They are raised primarily as livestock for meat, dairy products, and as draft animals. There are over 1.3 billion cattle worldwide that are descended from as few as 80 progenitors domesticated in southeast Turkey approximately 10,500 years ago. Cattle are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae and genus Bos, and though primarily raised for food and labor, they also have significant religious meaning in some regions like parts of India.

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Cattle are large domesticated ungulates that are most commonly classified as Bos taurus. They are raised primarily as livestock for meat, dairy products, and as draft animals. There are over 1.3 billion cattle worldwide that are descended from as few as 80 progenitors domesticated in southeast Turkey approximately 10,500 years ago. Cattle are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae and genus Bos, and though primarily raised for food and labor, they also have significant religious meaning in some regions like parts of India.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Cow" redirects here. For other uses, see Cow (disambiguation).


For other uses, see Cattle (disambiguation).
Cattle

A Swiss Braunvieh cow wearing


a cowbell.

Conservation status
Domesticated
Scientific classification
Kingdom:

Animalia

Phylum:

Chordata

Class:

Mammalia

Subclass:

Theria

Infraclass:

Eutheria

Order:

Cetartiodactyla

Family:

Bovidae

Subfamily:

Bovinae

Genus:

Bos

Species:

B. taurus
Binomial name
Bos taurus
Linnaeus, 1758

Bovine range

Synonyms
Bos primigenius,
Bos indicus
Cattlecolloquially cows[note 1]are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.
They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae, are the most widespread
species of the genus Bos, and are most commonly classified collectively as Bos taurus.
Cattle are raised as livestock for meat (beef and veal), as dairy animals for milk and
other dairy products, and as draft animals (oxen or bullocks that pull carts, plows and other
implements). Other products include leather and dung for manure or fuel. In some regions,
such as parts of India, cattle have significant religious meaning. From as few as 80
progenitors domesticated in southeast Turkey about 10,500 years ago, [1] according to an
estimate from 2003, there are 1.3 billion cattle in the world. [2] In 2009, cattle became one of
the first livestock animals to have a fully mapped genome.[3] Some consider cattle the oldest
form of wealth, and cattle raiding consequently one of the earliest forms of theft.

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