Cattle are domestication ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family (biology) 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. 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 pecularities of that group.) == Terminology == Older English sources like King James Version of the Bible refer to livestock in general as cattle, or sometimes the archaic ''kine''. Additionally other species of the genus ''Bos'' are often called cattle or wild cattle. This article refers to the common modern meaning of "cattle", European cattle. Young cattle are called calf. A young male is called a bull-calf; a young female is called a heifer (pronounced "heffer"). Male cattle bred for meat are castration unless needed for breeding. The castrated male is then called a bullock or steer, unless kept for draft purposes, in which case it is called an ox (not to be confused with the related wild musk ox). An intact male is called a bull. An adult female over two years of age (approximately) is called a cow. The adjective applying to cattle is bovine. There is no singular equivalent to "cattle" other than the various gender and age-specific terms (though "catron" is occasionally seen as a half-serious proposal). "Cow" is probably the closest to being gender-neutral, although it is usually understood to mean female (females of other animals, such as whales or elephants, are also called cows.) Some Australian, Canada, New Zealand and Scotland farmers use the term "cattlebeast". "Neat" (horned oxen, from which we get "neatsfoot oil"), "beef" (young ox) and "beefing" (young animal fit for slaughtering) are obsolete terms. Cattle raised for human consumption are called beef cattle. Cows of certain breeds that are kept for the milk they give are called dairy cows. Herds are counted as, for example, "one hundred head". The term ''cattle'' itself is not a plural, but a mass noun. Thus one may refer to ''some cattle'', but not ''three cattle''. The terms bull and cow are also used for the male and female of some other species, including other bovidae such as American Bison, but also less closely related species such as moose, elk, elephants, whales, and sea lions. The terms are used primarily to refer to animals that have polygyny or [http://wiktionary.org/wiki/Harem harem] mating systems, though "bull" in particular may be used because humans find the male of a species daunting. ==Biology== Cattle are ruminants, meaning that they have a unique digestive system that allows them to synthesize amino acids. This allows them to thrive on Poaceaees and other vegetation. Cattle have one stomach, with four compartments. They are the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum. The rumen is the largest compartment. It can hold up to 40 gallons of digestable feed in a mature cow. The rumen is known as the "Paunch." The reticulum is the smallest compartment. Metal is attracted to the reticulum, and this is where Hardware Disease occurs. The reticulum is known as the "Honeycomb." The omasum's main function is to absorb water and nutrients from the digestable feed. The omasum is known as the "Many Plies." The abomasum is most like the human stomach; this is why it is known as the "True Stomach." The aurochs was originally spread throughout Europe, Africa and Asia. In historical times, their range was restricted to Europe, and the last animals were killed by poachers in Masovia, Poland, in 1627, although some breeders have attempted to recreate the original gene pool of the aurochs by careful crossing of commercial breeds, creating the Heck cattle breed. A popular misconception about cattle (primarily bulls) is that they are enraged by the colour red. This is incorrect; cattle are totally colour-blind, and can only see in greyscale. The main source of this rumour is the fact that Matadors traditionally use red-coloured capes to provoke bulls into attacking. In fact, the red color is merely traditional; the movement of the cape is the attractant. ==Uses of cattle== Cattle occupy a unique role in human history. Some consider them the oldest form of wealth. Their ability to provide meat, dairy and draft while reproducing themselves and eating nothing but grass has furthered human interests dramatically through the millennia. In Hinduism, the cow is said to be holy (and thus should not be eating); "The cow is our Mother, for she gives us milk". In Latin America, Australia and the western North America cattle are grazed on large tracts of rangeland called ranching or Stations (''Australia''). In Portugal, Spain and some Latin American countries, bulls are used in the sport of bullfighting; in many other countries this is illegal. The outbreaks of mad cow disease have reduced or prevented some traditional uses of cattle for food, for example the eating of brains or spinal cords. ==Ox== [[Image:India.Mumbai.04.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Draft Zebus in Mumbai, India]] Oxen (plural of ox) are cattle trained as draft animals. Often they are adult, castration males. Usually an ox is over four years old due to the need for training and for time to grow to full size. Oxen are used for plowing, transport, hauling cargo, grain-grinding by trampling or by powering machines, irrigation by powering pumps, and wagon drawing. Oxen were commonly used to skid logs, and sometimes are still in low-impact select-cut logging, in forests. Contrary to popular American lore, an "ox" is not a unique breed of bovine, nor have any "blue" oxen lived outside the folk tales surrounding Paul Bunyan, the mythical American logger. An ox is nothing more than a mature bovine with an "education". The education consists of the animal's learning to respond appropriately to the teamster's (ox driver's) commands: in North America such as (1) get up, (2) whoa, (3) back up, (4) gee (turn to the right) and (5) haw (turn to the left). In addition to intelligence (the ability to learn), American ox trainers favored larger breeds for their ability to do more work; for the same reason, the typical ox is the male of a breed, rather than the smaller female. Also, the gait of the ox is often important to ox trainers, since the speed the animal walks should roughly match the gait of the ox driver who must work with it. Oxen are most often used in teams of two, paired, for light work such as carting. In past days some teams were about fourteen, and even over twenty for logging. A wooden yoke is fastened about the neck of each pair so that the force of draft is distributed across their shoulders. Oxen are chosen, from calves, with horns since the horns hold the yoke in place when the oxen lower their heads, back up or slow down (particularly with a wheeled vehicle going downhill). Yoked oxen cannot slow a load like harnessed horses can, the load has to be controlled downhill by other means. Oxen must be painstakingly trained from a young age. Their teamster must make or buy as many as a dozen yokes of different sizes as the animals grow. Ox teams are steered by commands or noise (whip cracks) and many teamsters were known for their voices and language. Oxen can pull harder and longer than horses, particularly on obstinate or almost un-movable loads. This is one of the reasons that teams were dragging logs from forests long after horses had taken over most other draught uses in Europe and the New World. Though not as fast as horses, they are less prone to injury because they are more sure-footed and do not try to jerk the load. Many oxen are still in use worldwide, especially in developing nations. ==Miscellaneous== *For the mythology and lore connected with the bull, see Bull (mythology). *The ox is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. See: Ox (Zodiac). *The constellation Taurus (constellation) represents a bull. *A cow is alleged to have started the Great Chicago Fire by kicking over a kerosene lamp. *On February 18, 1930 Elm Farm Ollie became the first cow to fly in an airplane and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane. *A humour anecdote among farmers suggests that instant death will come to anyone bitten by a cattle's upper front teeth. The joke is apparent to anyone knowing that a cow possesses no such teeth. ==Cattle in Popular Culture== *Gary Larson's famous comic strip The Far Side frequently included cows in humorous situations. *The lilac-colored "Milka Cow" is a well-known symbol of the Milka brand of chocolate. *Since 1995, advertisements for Chick-fil-A restaurants have featured cows encouraging people to "Eat Mor Chikin." *The sound a cow makes is often used to create comedic effect. In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The France shot cows out of catapults. In the movie Twister, they had tornadoes shooting cows all around in the air and they mooed while flying. In the game Fallout and Fallout 2, cows had mutated into Brahman. These cows sometimes would say, "Moo, I say!" *In a grapenuts television commercial and a movie with Tim Allen where he pretends to be Amish, they have scenes of men milking a bull by mistake and thinking it was a cow ==Breeds of cattle== [[Image:Lightmatter wild cow.jpg|thumb|right|275px|A wild cow in the San Diego Zoo]] *Afrikaner cattle *Angus cattle *Ankole *Ayrshire cattle *Beefalo (a cross between domestic cattle and the American Bison) *Beefmaster *Belgian Blue *Belted Galloway *Blaarkop *Black Angus *Blonde dAqui *Braford *Brahman (cattle): ''Bos indica'' *Brangus *Braunvieh *British White *Brown Swiss *BueLingo *Canchim *Charolais cattle *Chateaubriand cattle *Chiangus *Chianina *Commercial cattle *Corriente cattle *Devon cattle *Dexter cattle *Dutch Belted (Lakenvelder) *Holstein (cattle) (Holstein) *Galloway (cattle) *Gelbvieh *Guernsey cattle *Heck Cattle *Hereford (cattle) *Highland Cattle *Holstein (cattle) (Friesian) *Hungarian Grey *Hybridmaster *Jersey_cattle *Dutch Belted (Dutch Belted) *Kerry *Limousin (cattle *Lincoln Red *Maine Anjou *Marchigiana *Milking Shorthorn *Miniature *Murray Grey *Nguni cattle *Normande *Piedmontese (cattle) *Pinzgauer (cattle) *Polled Hereford *Red Angus *Red Brangus *Red Poll *Romagnola *Salers *Santa Gertrudis *Senepol *Shorthorn *Simbrah *Simmental *South Devon cattle *Sussex *Tarentaise *Texas Longhorn *Tuli *Vechur cow *Wagyu *Watusi (cattle) *Zebu ==See also== * Age of cattle * Barbed wire * Bullfighting * Cow tipping * Dairy Cattle * Factory farming * Grass fed beef * List of domesticated animals * Yak ==External links== * [http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/ Cattle Breeds website] - Oklahoma State University * [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/holycow/index.html PBS Nature: Holy Cow (about cows in general)] * [http://www.lincolnredcattlesociety.co.uk UK Lincoln Red Cattle Society] ==Other meanings of cow, bull, etc.== * Bull (mythology) * Groupe Bull * Cows (movie) (a movie by Julio Medem) * Irish bull (an incongruent statement) * Papal bull * surat al-Baqara (The Cow) in the Qur'an Cattle als:Kuh nds:Rindveeh simple:Cattle zh-cn:家牛
Why in the world are there so many images in this article? This is overkill in the extreme. Unless there is a good argument for keeping them I will turn many of them into media links that are linked to the main image's description page. Just because there are many images of cows doesn't mean we have to use all of them. Also, what about people on dial-up modem? This page will take way too long to download with so many images. --User:Maveric149 :It does, indeed. And in my browser the top right image is overlapping the table. -- User:Isis 23:40 Sep 21, 2002 (UTC) Moving them sounds good. I'm against deleting them altogether, because as a digital encyclopedia we should have a lot of multimedia content and I'm conservative about deletion. But as an Internet encylopedia we should be open to dial-up users and users with small screens. --User:Ellmist Saturday, September 21st 2002 :OK then. Which image should stay and which should be moved? --User:Maveric149 ::BTW, I've had this same problem come up with a few articles--I have several images & feel I shouldn't display all of them, even if I want to. dragonfly has two and probably shouldn't; Spanish moss has 3 but shows only one. The other two are linked from the image description page of the first. Maybe we should suggest a policy on this one way or the other. User:Koyaanis Qatsi 23:50 Sep 21, 2002 (UTC) :::I think what you have done is perhaps the optimal solution. To improve upon it I would simply add a very short statement under the image saying "Larger and alternate images" and have that be a link to the image description page where the images are linked. --User:Maveric149 :I vote for "cow with calf" or "calves grazing" (the one beside it). User:Koyaanis Qatsi ::I vote for "calves grazing" too. --User:Maveric149 Could you move some of them to pages illustrating the different breeds, please? I'd like to be able to see pictures to go with the names. -- User:Isis 23:53 Sep 21, 2002 (UTC) I'd like to move them to Images of cattle rather than on the :Image page that they're on now, because I think this is more in line with wikipedia:image use policy. comments? User:MyRedDice :::::::::Make a Sounds of cattle, too. User:Thodin 16:35, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC) :The article namespace is not appropriate for such an image gallery. We should tweak the policy instead to allow this use of image description pages ''so long as'' the article from which the page is linked (in this case cattle) has explicit text indicating to the user that the page they are going to has alternate images of the subject. Cattle already complies with this. In this case common practice is not reflected in the policy and the policy needs to be updated. If no images whatsoever were allowed to be displayed on image description pages then the developers would write one line of code to prevent this. --User:Maveric149 :: There seem to be a couple of views - some people seem to agree with the policy (eg BigFatBuddha) and some people don't. Both sides have good arguments, I think. I'll raise it there... tomorrow! :) User:MyRedDice Small correction the difference between a cow and a heifer is a cow is a female that has produced offspring, and heifer has not produced offspring. : Not necessarily. Many producers, veterinarians, and others in the industry will refer to a "first calf heifer"--that is, a female that has borne a calf but not yet weaned it. For dairy cattle, they are often called heifers when they first join the milking herd, and called cows some time later, towards the end of their first lactation. Like many ag terms, usage varies from one region to another. User:Kat 21:51 7 Jul 2003 (UTC) alert vandalism in article ==Titles for breed articles?== Hey, anyone--I see that breed pages are titled in one of three ways: Breedname (cattle), Breedname cattle, or simply Breedname. One might think we ought to be consistent. Thoughts on which is the best? (I'm inclined to go for one of the first 2, and use the 3rd as a redirect...? E.g., "holstein" would link to or redirect to Holstein cattle." User:Elf | User talk:Elf 01:01, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC) ==Livestock - Collaboration of the Week== Anyone interested in improving the content of the agricultural information on Wikipedia, here is your opportunity. Livestock has been nominated as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Collaboration_of_the_week Collaboration of the Week]. User:H2O 23:51, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC) :I'll keep it in mind but list of dog topics tends to keep me pretty busy except when I'm slumming. :-) User:Elf | User talk:Elf 00:13, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC) ==Name== Here is small list of links where cattle is called ''Bos primigenius taurus''. 1) [http://merops.sanger.ac.uk/indexes/species_inhibitor_b.htm] 2) [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7676511&dopt=Abstract] 3)[http://www.cbsg.org/reports/reports/exec_sum/asian_wild_cattle_camp.pdf] 4) [http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/bsm/enzymes/ec3/ec01/ec04/ec0011/] 5) [http://www.montana.edu/wwwcbs/nutrlit.html] 6) [http://www.nws-wiesbaden.de/coll30.html] 7) [http://medicine.ucsd.edu/cpa/bant.html] Regards.--User:Wiglaf 11:21, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC) ==Neat vs Meat== Maybe this will prevent others from making the mistake I just made: Neat really is an archaic word for ''cattle'', not Meat. User:Elf | User talk:Elf 20:46, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Oh Well == I thought the Guatemalan Cow of Paradise being listed in the livestock was funny. If you clicked on it it forwarded to The Far Side. Whats wrong with a little tribute to Gary Larson? I think it should stay. == Watusi == If anybody wants to create an article about Watusi cattle, following are some links. Watusi look awesome. Unfortunately there is already a "watusi" article in wikipedia but it is just a redirect. http://www.watusicattle.com/news.shtml http://www.crazyforcows.com/fow/fow16.shtml http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/ankolewatusi/ == Obsolete terminology? == Where I live, the term "beeves" (multiple beef cattle) and its singular "beef" are still used by ranchers and people in the processing business. While I agree that they're uncommon, and falling out of favor, they're not gone yet, and I'm not sure it's appropriate to leave "beeves" out and mark "beef" as completely obsolete. I didn't change this in the main article, though, as I'd like to hear some other opinions. And, as a side note, the word "heifer" absolutely means "female that hasn't given birth to its first calf" around here. I see that Kat disagrees, but doesn't this at least rate a parenthetical? User:Gary D Robson 16:45, 2 May 2005 (UTC) == Sounds == I suggest we place sounds of cattle in the article; maybe that showing the sounds of the different cattle kinds (i.e. american cows vs. brahman). User:Thodin 02:55, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC) == Top Front Teeth of cattle. == Someone please include the fact that they have none in more objective or scientific terms than I possess. =)User:Yeago 06:40, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Cattle are domestication ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family (biology) 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. 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 pecularities of that group.) == Terminology == Older English sources like King James Version of the Bible refer to livestock in general as cattle, or sometimes the archaic ''kine''. Additionally other species of the genus ''Bos'' are often called cattle or wild cattle. This article refers to the common modern meaning of "cattle", European cattle. Young cattle are called calf. A young male is called a bull-calf; a young female is called a heifer (pronounced "heffer"). Male cattle bred for meat are castration unless needed for breeding. The castrated male is then called a bullock or steer, unless kept for draft purposes, in which case it is called an ox (not to be confused with the related wild musk ox). An intact male is called a bull. An adult female over two years of age (approximately) is called a cow. The adjective applying to cattle is bovine. There is no singular equivalent to "cattle" other than the various gender and age-specific terms (though "catron" is occasionally seen as a half-serious proposal). "Cow" is probably the closest to being gender-neutral, although it is usually understood to mean female (females of other animals, such as whales or elephants, are also called cows.) Some Australian, Canada, New Zealand and Scotland farmers use the term "cattlebeast". "Neat" (horned oxen, from which we get "neatsfoot oil"), "beef" (young ox) and "beefing" (young animal fit for slaughtering) are obsolete terms. Cattle raised for human consumption are called beef cattle. Cows of certain breeds that are kept for the milk they give are called dairy cows. Herds are counted as, for example, "one hundred head". The term ''cattle'' itself is not a plural, but a mass noun. Thus one may refer to ''some cattle'', but not ''three cattle''. The terms bull and cow are also used for the male and female of some other species, including other bovidae such as American Bison, but also less closely related species such as moose, elk, elephants, whales, and sea lions. The terms are used primarily to refer to animals that have polygyny or [http://wiktionary.org/wiki/Harem harem] mating systems, though "bull" in particular may be used because humans find the male of a species daunting. ==Biology== Cattle are ruminants, meaning that they have a unique digestive system that allows them to synthesize amino acids. This allows them to thrive on Poaceaees and other vegetation. Cattle have one stomach, with four compartments. They are the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum. The rumen is the largest compartment. It can hold up to 40 gallons of digestable feed in a mature cow. The rumen is known as the "Paunch." The reticulum is the smallest compartment. Metal is attracted to the reticulum, and this is where Hardware Disease occurs. The reticulum is known as the "Honeycomb." The omasum's main function is to absorb water and nutrients from the digestable feed. The omasum is known as the "Many Plies." The abomasum is most like the human stomach; this is why it is known as the "True Stomach." The aurochs was originally spread throughout Europe, Africa and Asia. In historical times, their range was restricted to Europe, and the last animals were killed by poachers in Masovia, Poland, in 1627, although some breeders have attempted to recreate the original gene pool of the aurochs by careful crossing of commercial breeds, creating the Heck cattle breed. A popular misconception about cattle (primarily bulls) is that they are enraged by the colour red. This is incorrect; cattle are totally colour-blind, and can only see in greyscale. The main source of this rumour is the fact that Matadors traditionally use red-coloured capes to provoke bulls into attacking. In fact, the red color is merely traditional; the movement of the cape is the attractant. ==Uses of cattle== Cattle occupy a unique role in human history. Some consider them the oldest form of wealth. Their ability to provide meat, dairy and draft while reproducing themselves and eating nothing but grass has furthered human interests dramatically through the millennia. In Hinduism, the cow is said to be holy (and thus should not be eating); "The cow is our Mother, for she gives us milk". In Latin America, Australia and the western North America cattle are grazed on large tracts of rangeland called ranching or Stations (''Australia''). In Portugal, Spain and some Latin American countries, bulls are used in the sport of bullfighting; in many other countries this is illegal. The outbreaks of mad cow disease have reduced or prevented some traditional uses of cattle for food, for example the eating of brains or spinal cords. ==Ox== [[Image:India.Mumbai.04.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Draft Zebus in Mumbai, India]] Oxen (plural of ox) are cattle trained as draft animals. Often they are adult, castration males. Usually an ox is over four years old due to the need for training and for time to grow to full size. Oxen are used for plowing, transport, hauling cargo, grain-grinding by trampling or by powering machines, irrigation by powering pumps, and wagon drawing. Oxen were commonly used to skid logs, and sometimes are still in low-impact select-cut logging, in forests. Contrary to popular American lore, an "ox" is not a unique breed of bovine, nor have any "blue" oxen lived outside the folk tales surrounding Paul Bunyan, the mythical American logger. An ox is nothing more than a mature bovine with an "education". The education consists of the animal's learning to respond appropriately to the teamster's (ox driver's) commands: in North America such as (1) get up, (2) whoa, (3) back up, (4) gee (turn to the right) and (5) haw (turn to the left). In addition to intelligence (the ability to learn), American ox trainers favored larger breeds for their ability to do more work; for the same reason, the typical ox is the male of a breed, rather than the smaller female. Also, the gait of the ox is often important to ox trainers, since the speed the animal walks should roughly match the gait of the ox driver who must work with it. Oxen are most often used in teams of two, paired, for light work such as carting. In past days some teams were about fourteen, and even over twenty for logging. A wooden yoke is fastened about the neck of each pair so that the force of draft is distributed across their shoulders. Oxen are chosen, from calves, with horns since the horns hold the yoke in place when the oxen lower their heads, back up or slow down (particularly with a wheeled vehicle going downhill). Yoked oxen cannot slow a load like harnessed horses can, the load has to be controlled downhill by other means. Oxen must be painstakingly trained from a young age. Their teamster must make or buy as many as a dozen yokes of different sizes as the animals grow. Ox teams are steered by commands or noise (whip cracks) and many teamsters were known for their voices and language. Oxen can pull harder and longer than horses, particularly on obstinate or almost un-movable loads. This is one of the reasons that teams were dragging logs from forests long after horses had taken over most other draught uses in Europe and the New World. Though not as fast as horses, they are less prone to injury because they are more sure-footed and do not try to jerk the load. Many oxen are still in use worldwide, especially in developing nations. ==Miscellaneous== *For the mythology and lore connected with the bull, see Bull (mythology). *The ox is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. See: Ox (Zodiac). *The constellation Taurus (constellation) represents a bull. *A cow is alleged to have started the Great Chicago Fire by kicking over a kerosene lamp. *On February 18, 1930 Elm Farm Ollie became the first cow to fly in an airplane and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane. *A humour anecdote among farmers suggests that instant death will come to anyone bitten by a cattle's upper front teeth. The joke is apparent to anyone knowing that a cow possesses no such teeth. ==Cattle in Popular Culture== *Gary Larson's famous comic strip The Far Side frequently included cows in humorous situations. *The lilac-colored "Milka Cow" is a well-known symbol of the Milka brand of chocolate. *Since 1995, advertisements for Chick-fil-A restaurants have featured cows encouraging people to "Eat Mor Chikin." *The sound a cow makes is often used to create comedic effect. In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The France shot cows out of catapults. In the movie Twister, they had tornadoes shooting cows all around in the air and they mooed while flying. In the game Fallout and Fallout 2, cows had mutated into Brahman. These cows sometimes would say, "Moo, I say!" *In a grapenuts television commercial and a movie with Tim Allen where he pretends to be Amish, they have scenes of men milking a bull by mistake and thinking it was a cow ==Breeds of cattle== [[Image:Lightmatter wild cow.jpg|thumb|right|275px|A wild cow in the San Diego Zoo]] *Afrikaner cattle *Angus cattle *Ankole *Ayrshire cattle *Beefalo (a cross between domestic cattle and the American Bison) *Beefmaster *Belgian Blue *Belted Galloway *Blaarkop *Black Angus *Blonde dAqui *Braford *Brahman (cattle): ''Bos indica'' *Brangus *Braunvieh *British White *Brown Swiss *BueLingo *Canchim *Charolais cattle *Chateaubriand cattle *Chiangus *Chianina *Commercial cattle *Corriente cattle *Devon cattle *Dexter cattle *Dutch Belted (Lakenvelder) *Holstein (cattle) (Holstein) *Galloway (cattle) *Gelbvieh *Guernsey cattle *Heck Cattle *Hereford (cattle) *Highland Cattle *Holstein (cattle) (Friesian) *Hungarian Grey *Hybridmaster *Jersey_cattle *Dutch Belted (Dutch Belted) *Kerry *Limousin (cattle *Lincoln Red *Maine Anjou *Marchigiana *Milking Shorthorn *Miniature *Murray Grey *Nguni cattle *Normande *Piedmontese (cattle) *Pinzgauer (cattle) *Polled Hereford *Red Angus *Red Brangus *Red Poll *Romagnola *Salers *Santa Gertrudis *Senepol *Shorthorn *Simbrah *Simmental *South Devon cattle *Sussex *Tarentaise *Texas Longhorn *Tuli *Vechur cow *Wagyu *Watusi (cattle) *Zebu ==See also== * Age of cattle * Barbed wire * Bullfighting * Cow tipping * Dairy Cattle * Factory farming * Grass fed beef * List of domesticated animals * Yak ==External links== * [http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/ Cattle Breeds website] - Oklahoma State University * [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/holycow/index.html PBS Nature: Holy Cow (about cows in general)] * [http://www.lincolnredcattlesociety.co.uk UK Lincoln Red Cattle Society] ==Other meanings of cow, bull, etc.== * Bull (mythology) * Groupe Bull * Cows (movie) (a movie by Julio Medem) * Irish bull (an incongruent statement) * Papal bull * surat al-Baqara (The Cow) in the Qur'an Cattle als:Kuh nds:Rindveeh simple:Cattle zh-cn:家牛
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Why in the world are there so many images in this article? This is overkill in the extreme. Unless there is a good argument for keeping them I will turn many of them into media links that are linked to the main image's description page. Just because there are many images of cows doesn't mean we have to use all of them. Also, what about people on dial-up modem? This page will take way too long to download with so many images. --User:Maveric149 :It does, indeed. And in my browser the top right image is overlapping the table. -- User:Isis 23:40 Sep 21, 2002 (UTC) Moving them sounds good. I'm against deleting them altogether, because as a digital encyclopedia we should have a lot of multimedia content and I'm conservative about deletion. But as an Internet encylopedia we should be open to dial-up users and users with small screens. --User:Ellmist Saturday, September 21st 2002 :OK then. Which image should stay and which should be moved? --User:Maveric149 ::BTW, I've had this same problem come up with a few articles--I have several images & feel I shouldn't display all of them, even if I want to. dragonfly has two and probably shouldn't; Spanish moss has 3 but shows only one. The other two are linked from the image description page of the first. Maybe we should suggest a policy on this one way or the other. User:Koyaanis Qatsi 23:50 Sep 21, 2002 (UTC) :::I think what you have done is perhaps the optimal solution. To improve upon it I would simply add a very short statement under the image saying "Larger and alternate images" and have that be a link to the image description page where the images are linked. --User:Maveric149 :I vote for "cow with calf" or "calves grazing" (the one beside it). User:Koyaanis Qatsi ::I vote for "calves grazing" too. --User:Maveric149 Could you move some of them to pages illustrating the different breeds, please? I'd like to be able to see pictures to go with the names. -- User:Isis 23:53 Sep 21, 2002 (UTC) I'd like to move them to Images of cattle rather than on the :Image page that they're on now, because I think this is more in line with wikipedia:image use policy. comments? User:MyRedDice :::::::::Make a Sounds of cattle, too. User:Thodin 16:35, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC) :The article namespace is not appropriate for such an image gallery. We should tweak the policy instead to allow this use of image description pages ''so long as'' the article from which the page is linked (in this case cattle) has explicit text indicating to the user that the page they are going to has alternate images of the subject. Cattle already complies with this. In this case common practice is not reflected in the policy and the policy needs to be updated. If no images whatsoever were allowed to be displayed on image description pages then the developers would write one line of code to prevent this. --User:Maveric149 :: There seem to be a couple of views - some people seem to agree with the policy (eg BigFatBuddha) and some people don't. Both sides have good arguments, I think. I'll raise it there... tomorrow! :) User:MyRedDice Small correction the difference between a cow and a heifer is a cow is a female that has produced offspring, and heifer has not produced offspring. : Not necessarily. Many producers, veterinarians, and others in the industry will refer to a "first calf heifer"--that is, a female that has borne a calf but not yet weaned it. For dairy cattle, they are often called heifers when they first join the milking herd, and called cows some time later, towards the end of their first lactation. Like many ag terms, usage varies from one region to another. User:Kat 21:51 7 Jul 2003 (UTC) alert vandalism in article ==Titles for breed articles?== Hey, anyone--I see that breed pages are titled in one of three ways: Breedname (cattle), Breedname cattle, or simply Breedname. One might think we ought to be consistent. Thoughts on which is the best? (I'm inclined to go for one of the first 2, and use the 3rd as a redirect...? E.g., "holstein" would link to or redirect to Holstein cattle." User:Elf | User talk:Elf 01:01, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC) ==Livestock - Collaboration of the Week== Anyone interested in improving the content of the agricultural information on Wikipedia, here is your opportunity. Livestock has been nominated as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Collaboration_of_the_week Collaboration of the Week]. User:H2O 23:51, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC) :I'll keep it in mind but list of dog topics tends to keep me pretty busy except when I'm slumming. :-) User:Elf | User talk:Elf 00:13, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC) ==Name== Here is small list of links where cattle is called ''Bos primigenius taurus''. 1) [http://merops.sanger.ac.uk/indexes/species_inhibitor_b.htm] 2) [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7676511&dopt=Abstract] 3)[http://www.cbsg.org/reports/reports/exec_sum/asian_wild_cattle_camp.pdf] 4) [http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/bsm/enzymes/ec3/ec01/ec04/ec0011/] 5) [http://www.montana.edu/wwwcbs/nutrlit.html] 6) [http://www.nws-wiesbaden.de/coll30.html] 7) [http://medicine.ucsd.edu/cpa/bant.html] Regards.--User:Wiglaf 11:21, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC) ==Neat vs Meat== Maybe this will prevent others from making the mistake I just made: Neat really is an archaic word for ''cattle'', not Meat. User:Elf | User talk:Elf 20:46, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Oh Well == I thought the Guatemalan Cow of Paradise being listed in the livestock was funny. If you clicked on it it forwarded to The Far Side. Whats wrong with a little tribute to Gary Larson? I think it should stay. == Watusi == If anybody wants to create an article about Watusi cattle, following are some links. Watusi look awesome. Unfortunately there is already a "watusi" article in wikipedia but it is just a redirect. http://www.watusicattle.com/news.shtml http://www.crazyforcows.com/fow/fow16.shtml http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/ankolewatusi/ == Obsolete terminology? == Where I live, the term "beeves" (multiple beef cattle) and its singular "beef" are still used by ranchers and people in the processing business. While I agree that they're uncommon, and falling out of favor, they're not gone yet, and I'm not sure it's appropriate to leave "beeves" out and mark "beef" as completely obsolete. I didn't change this in the main article, though, as I'd like to hear some other opinions. And, as a side note, the word "heifer" absolutely means "female that hasn't given birth to its first calf" around here. I see that Kat disagrees, but doesn't this at least rate a parenthetical? User:Gary D Robson 16:45, 2 May 2005 (UTC) == Sounds == I suggest we place sounds of cattle in the article; maybe that showing the sounds of the different cattle kinds (i.e. american cows vs. brahman). User:Thodin 02:55, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC) == Top Front Teeth of cattle. == Someone please include the fact that they have none in more objective or scientific terms than I possess. =)User:Yeago 06:40, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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