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In 1927, fossils of an ancient wild cattle called Hanaizumi Moriushi ( Leptobison hanaizumiensis) and dating to the Paleolithic period about 20 000 years ago, were discovered at the Hanaizumi Site in Ichinoseki City in Iwate Prefecture. It is a species similar to the bison, and is said to be close to the steppe bison ( Bison priscus) lineage.
Purebred "Black Simmental" bull in North America. The Simmental or Swiss Fleckvieh is a Swiss breed of dual-purpose cattle. It is named after the Simmental – the valley of the Simme river – in the Bernese Oberland, in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The breed is typically reddish in colour with white markings, and is raised for both milk ...
The Dexter is an Irish breed of small cattle. [6] It originated in the eighteenth century in County Kerry, in south-western Ireland, and appears to be named after a man named Dexter, who was factor of the estates of Lord Hawarden on Valentia Island. Until the second half of the nineteenth century it was considered a type within the Kerry breed ...
Aurochs. The aurochs (Bos primigenius) (/ ˈɔːrɒks / or / ˈaʊrɒks /), plural aurochs or aurochsen, is an extinct cattle species, considered to be the wild ancestor of modern domestic cattle. With a shoulder height of up to 180 cm (71 in) in bulls and 155 cm (61 in) in cows, it was one of the largest herbivores in the Holocene; it had ...
English Longhorn. The Longhorn or British Longhorn is a British breed of beef cattle characterised by long curving horns. It originated in northern England, in the counties of Lancashire, Westmorland and Yorkshire, and later spread to the English Midlands and to Ireland. [4]: 49 It was originally a slow heavy draught animal; cows gave a little ...
The Swedish Red Polled is a traditional Swedish breed. It was commonly raised in the landskap of Dalarna and along the west coast of the country. A herd-book was established in 1912, [3] and the breed began to spread. By the late 1930s it was present not only in Dalarna but in Bohuslän, Dalsland, Gästrikland, Hälsingland, Närke, the ...
Cattle. Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls.
The Hereford is a British breed of beef cattle originally from Herefordshire in the West Midlands of England. [3] It was the result of selective breeding from the mid-eighteenth century by a few families in Herefordshire, beginning some decades before the noted work of Robert Bakewell. [4]: 197. It has spread to many countries; in 2023 the ...