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An ox (pl.: oxen), also known as a bullock (in British, Australian, and Indian English), [1] is a large bovine, trained and used as a draft animal. Oxen are commonly castrated adult male cattle , because castration inhibits testosterone and aggression, which makes the males docile and safer to work with.
The kouprey (Bos sauveli), also known as the forest ox and grey ox, is a possibly extinct species of forest-dwelling wild bovine native to Southeast Asia. It was first scientifically described in 1937.
The term is also incorporated into the names of other species, such as the musk ox and "grunting ox" , and is used in some areas to describe certain cattle products such as ox-hide and oxtail. [ 13 ] The term Cattle was borrowed from Anglo-Norman catel , itself from medieval Latin capitale 'principal sum of money, capital', itself derived in ...
15th century Japanese hanging scroll depicting a scene from the Oxherding sequence. Ten Bulls or Ten Ox Herding Pictures (Chinese: shíniú 十牛 , Japanese: jūgyūzu 十牛図 , korean: sipwoo 십우) is a series of short poems and accompanying drawings used in the Zen tradition to describe the stages of a practitioner's progress toward awakening, [web 1] and their subsequent return to ...
Stevie the Australian Cattle Dog proved that many dogs can still do their business and even walk outside during a snowstorm, but it's up to every dog's owner to make the best decision for them.
Boes ("Ox Tales") is a Dutch newspaper gag-a-day comic strip created by Wil Raymakers and Thijs Wilms. It was created in 1980 [1] and spawned a popular anime television series between 1988 and 1991, titled Ox Tales in the English-speaking world. The comic managed to outlive the animated adaptation and still continues to appear as a column strip ...
They went from being wild animals to becoming man’s best friend. And some people even believe we don’t actually deserve them. Dogs have developed a well-deserved reputation as being loyal ...
Slaughtered Ox, 1655. Oil on panel. 95.5 x 68.8 cm. Louvre, Paris. Slaughtered Ox, also known as Flayed Ox, Side of Beef, or Carcass of Beef, is a 1655 oil on beech panel still life painting by Rembrandt. It has been in the collection of the Louvre in Paris since 1857.