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Cattle are the most common type of large domesticated animals and include cows. They are raised worldwide as livestock for meat, dairy, and draft power using oxen or bullocks. Other products from cattle include leather and dung. With an estimated 1.4 billion worldwide descended from domestication in Turkey thousands of years ago, cattle are a prominent modern member of their genus and species.

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Cattle are the most common type of large domesticated animals and include cows. They are raised worldwide as livestock for meat, dairy, and draft power using oxen or bullocks. Other products from cattle include leather and dung. With an estimated 1.4 billion worldwide descended from domestication in Turkey thousands of years ago, cattle are a prominent modern member of their genus and species.

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Cattle

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 2011, there are 1.4 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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