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Cattle-Colloquially Cows

Cattle, commonly known as cows, are the most widespread large domesticated animals and are primarily raised for meat, dairy, and as draft animals. There are over 1.4 billion cattle globally domesticated from approximately 80 ancestors in Turkey thousands of years ago. In addition to food, cattle provide leather and fuel and have religious significance in some cultures.

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Cattle-Colloquially Cows

Cattle, commonly known as cows, are the most widespread large domesticated animals and are primarily raised for meat, dairy, and as draft animals. There are over 1.4 billion cattle globally domesticated from approximately 80 ancestors in Turkey thousands of years ago. In addition to food, cattle provide leather and fuel and have religious significance in some cultures.

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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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