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Cow Animals - photo wallpapers; Megawallpapers.org: Cattle (often called cows in vernacular and contemporary usage, or kye as the Scots plural of cou) are domesticated ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. They are raised as livestock for meat (called beef and veal), dairy products (milk), leather and as draught animals (pulling carts, plows and the like). In some countries, such as India,
they are subject to religious ceremonies and respect. It is estimated
that there are 1.4 billion head of cattle in the world today. Cattle were originally identified by Carolus Linnaeus as three separate species. These were Bos taurus, the European cattle, including similar types from Africa and Asia; Bos indicus, the zebu; and the extinct Bos primigenius, the aurochs.
The aurochs is ancestral to both zebu and European cattle. More
recently these three have increasingly been grouped as one species,
sometimes using the names Bos primigenius taurus, Bos primigenius indicus and Bos primigenius primigenius.
Complicating the matter is the ability of cattle to interbreed with
other closely related species. Hybrid individuals and even breeds
exist, not only between European cattle and zebu but also with yaks, banteng, gaur, and bison, a cross-genera hybrid. For example, genetic testing of the Dwarf Lulu breed, the only humpless "Bos taurus-type" cattle in Nepal, found them to be a mix of European cattle, zebu and yak. Cattle cannot successfully be bred with water buffalo or African buffalo. (See aurochs for the history of domestication, and zebu for peculiarities of that group.)...