@@Hashishin13American Bison (especially Wood Bison) are closer to the Steppe Bison in Siberia. If you look at a map it makes sense, Yakutia is closer to Alaska than it is to Poland.
Yak are becoming popular in Montana, North Dakota, Alaska and other cold states. In Alaska their wool has people raising them with Llama and Alpaca, even musk ox to experiment with fiber blends to fend off Arctic level cold.
@@fatdaddy1996 Of the goat family, yes. I case there was confusion: OP didn't mean people were crossing the two species. They meant people were keeping Llama, Alpaka, Musk Ox and Yak for wool and then mixed the wool after sheering.
@vhe9560, there is no goat family, muskoxen and goats both belong to the family Bovidae, which is the largest and most diverse family of hoofed mammals, goats are actually more closely related to cattle than either are to the muskox.
@@indyreno2933 Ah, thank you for correcting me. My main intention was to explain what OP meant regarding their wool. And that there is no crossing of Musk Oxen with the other species by breeding. So I didn't look up the exact relations before commenting. Should have done that. Thanks again. 👍
It's a shame that the ancestors of modern domesticated cattle are extinct. It is good to know there are conservation groups breeding Auroch-like taurine cattle & releasing them back in the wild. I wonder if the same can be done for the zebu. I have heard that feral zebu were introduced to India's Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary to entice rare native predators, such as the Asiatic lion.
I find it weird though that he didn't single out the Holstein breed. It is kind of what most people think of when they hear "cow". Holstein is the border region between Germany and Denmark and they fought several wars over it. It was conquered by Prussia during the wars of unification in 1870 and remained part of Germany all the way till it was given back to Denmark at the end of WW2.
This was a really good video. I just wanted to point something out in regards to our buffalo here in the U.S. Their numbers did not decline only due to overhunting. They were deliberately slaughtered - massacred by the thousands - as a tactic by colonists, government agents and military specifically BECAUSE our indigenous plains people relied so much on them. They were slaughtered to try and destroy indigenous tribes on the plains. I'm sure overhunting contributed, but it was by NO means the primary cause.
I remember being taught about it in history class back in grade school, and they showed us a picture of a cowboy standing atop a mountain of bison skulls-it must have been nearly a thousand skulls in just that picture alone. The bison hunting of the 1800s were essentially a wide-scale extermination campaign, and they nearly drove the American Bison to extinction.
Super interesting video! I do think it’s important to mention that the American Bison were purposely hunted to extinction to get rid of the tribes that depended on them though.
No, they just considered it an added bonus of taking away a large part of their diet and helping to starve some additional people out to further settle western lands with Northwestern European settlers. If we wanted to eradicate them entirely, then I’m pretty sure we would have easily done so by not giving them ‘government rations’ (low quality, fatty foods) when they were put on reservations. It was one of the reasons they killed the buffalos, yeah, but not the number one reason. We could have very easily exterminated them in the end of the 1800s and early 1900s in less than 20 years. Only the Navajo had any sort of moderate autonomy, similarity to this day. They could have been put on those reservations (as they were), then modern mass extermination methods/firing squads and other industrial machinery used to facilitate it. Chose to no longer carry out such events after the Indian Wars ended in the 1880s (1890, technically). They then chose to Westernize and assimilate them to wear Western European style clothing, have a Europeanized diet, live in European settler-style housing, speak English, practice a Europeanized version of Christianity (mainly Protestantism and Roman Catholicism), practice European-settler brought holidays, etc.
@@SouffleDude_256 Not reality. Only helped to add more deaths to the toll. Would have been able to entirely ‘exterminate’ the population in 20 years maximum if they really wanted to with modern industrial machinery and mass execution methods after they put them on reservations, making them entirely at the mercy of the US. They chose to not do so after the end of the Indian Wars post-1880s.
Also, ranchers wanted the bison gone so they could graze their own cattle. Farmers wanted them gone so they could plow up the prairie and plant crops. The US government wanted them exterminated in order to starve out the Native Plains Indian tribes and take their lands and exploit their resources. Finally the expanding railroads wanted them gone because big free roaming animals were a hazard to speeding 🚂 trains .
Awesome video! As someone who’s grown up around North American cattle species and bison, it was super cool to learn about quite a few cattle species I had never heard of before! Keep up the great work, I hope your channel continues to grow because you deserve it!!
I had the unique pleasure of working with one of the lead tiger biologists of Bhutan. He was very comfortable working with tigers, but said the one time he had caught a Gaur in a live trap, he was too scared to go near it. I got to analyze some camera trap images of Gaur and they are terrifying and incredible to watch, we caught one chasing an elephant.
Gaur. I have seen them in the Nilgiri Mountains in South India at altitudes around 2000m/6000ft. They are huge and look menacing. They roam around in small groups on tea estates.
they are the largest bovines...and probably the most dangerous too. They are disproportionately agile for their size...imagine a mid size rhino being agile like an antelope. Add to that their unpredictable mood. I live not very far from one of their largest inhabitats here in Terai region. While I once saw them from afar, my parents had a terrifying experience when they almost got attacked by one while they waited inside a car and the car slowly backed up. But, there are numerous incidents where they have attacked cars and even toppled them.
@@Amuzic I saw a movie years ago that took place in India. One scene was of a gaur rummaging around in the family garden at dusk. If I recall correctly, the people had to wait inside - or maybe in their car - until it left on its own. It looked terrifying and it was just a movie! 😳 I had no idea what the animal was called until much later when I happened upon it in a television program. (Wish I could remember the name of the film.)
Sure. But really I have seen zero footage of people working with near tiger. They seem much more wild than lion. Look at southern India where they routinely hunt humans. Here they even ambush humans travelling along roads on scooters.
I love cattle I’m a wetland ecologist and actually focus my study on turtles but I have always had a soft spot for cattle cause I grew up around them and spent a lot of my undergraduate studying them so I love these guys
Fun fact: Buffalo bill was actually a show that happened after the frontier closed to reiterate the conquering of the frontier. And most cowboys were not the lonesome explorers that one might think of. Being in the cattle business was hard labor.
Buffalo Bill was a man. Bill Cody. The wild west show was just a show with all these old out of work soldiers, as well as Sitting Bull, who was a friend, and Black Elk, who was known at the time as knowledgeable about most Oglala dances and believe it or not, business. Black Elk had managed a general store from his early teens on up, and had a good mind for organizing. I know, I was surprised too, but a healer can also be practical. But he started it for economic purposes, and it happened to also be educational. Whoever you are, if you're from a country that wouldn't have Buffalo Bill in your history books, I get that. But really, when talking about real people, it's better to look up the actual information.
And there are still cowboys, which everyone forgets. A lot of the ranchers around the big national parks lease park land and it's all free range. No fences. So they have to have cowboys to keep the herd together.
@@joeschmoe8320 I don’t believe I got that wrong?? I completely understand cowboys and pioneers were two different people. I talked about cowboy jobs at the end of my comment. I do recognize i was wrong about the history of Buffalo Bill though.
It was not Mexico but Spain (who owned Mexico at the time) which started much of the American cattle industry in the West and South, including those in Texas. The Spanish brought sheep, cows, and horses to the Missions they opened up all around New Spain. Florida was the first state in the US to have cows and it was also a Spanish territory and introduced by the Spanish. Criollo cattle for the most part have been replaced by other European and Zebuine breeds.
At what time ? he clearly said in the 19th century, Mexico achieved its independence from Spain in 1821, which it’s still part of the 19th century. Yes the Spanish were the ones who brought horses, cattle sheep etc.. to the Americas that correct.
Why prevent deforestation as a strategy to save wild cattle? Most wild cattle prefer grasslands over forested areas. If you really want to help wild cattle, give them a prairie or steppe.
At about 15:45 - 15:50 in the video, you talk about vaqueros in Texas "from Mexico." Please read some Texas history. Vaqueros were created by Spanish missions in Tejas in the 17th century. Vaqueros are of Spanish origin, not Mexican origin. In fact, Mexico owned Texas for just 15 years (1821 - 1836). The vaquero culture was well established before Mexico became a country. Also, cattle drives to "northern railroads" did not start in 1860 -- but in 1866. Before 1866, some cattle drives went to Houston, where the cattle were taken by rail to Galveston and shipped out in boats. Cattle drives to "northern railroads" did not begin until after the 1860-1865 war ended.
Actually they are bovine. But I did read upon it out of curiosity, and apparently they are more closely related to goats and sheep so you do have a point there. I'm surprised cus they look so much like oxen
@jamesgoode9246, cattle, goats, sheep, and muskoxen are all in the same family, which is Bovidae, both goats and sheep are both more closely related to cattle than goats and sheep are to muskoxen.
@@indyreno2933 -- Yes, all of these critters are in the family Bovidae. However, cattle and water buffalo are in the subfamily Bovini. Sheep, goats, and muskox are all in the subfamily caprini.
@jamesgoode9246, actually, Bovini and Caprini are tribes not subfamilies, also water buffalo are cattle, and no, muskoxen do not belong to the subfamily Caprinae, they now belong to the subfamily Ovibovinae along with the takin, gorals, mountain goat, serows, chamoises, and tahrs, thus restricting the Caprinae subfamily only to the goats (tribe Caprini) and sheep (tribe Ovini), the subfamilies Ovibovinae (Muskox, Takin, Gorals, Mountain Goat, Serows, Chamoises, and Tahrs) and Caprinae (Goats and Sheep) are not closely related, the Ovibovinae subfamily forms a clade with the subfamilies Hippotraginae (Grazing Antelope) and Alcelaphinae (Hartebeests, Wildebeests, Damalisks, and Hirola), while the Caprinae subfamily forms a clade with the subfamilies Antilopinae (True Antelope and Gazelles), Cephalophinae (Duikers), and Neotraginae (Dwarf Antelope), the Caprinae + (Antilopinae + (Cephalophinae + Neotraginae)) clade is actually most closely related to the Peleinae + (Reduncinae + Bovinae) clade, while the Ovibovinae + (Hippotraginae + Alcelaphinae) clade is basal to both, this officially divides bovids into ten subfamilies under three major clades, historically, all bovids other than bovines were included under the now defunct clade Aegodontia, but this taxon is rendered as polyphyletic as goats, sheep, true antelope, gazelles, duikers, dwarf antelope, reedbucks, lechwes, kobs, pukus, waterbucks, and rheboks are all more closely related to bovines than any of them are to muskoxen, takins, gorals, mountain goats, serows, chamoises, tahrs, grazing antelope, hartebeests, wildebeests, damalisks, or hirolas, because of this, the muskox, takin, gorals, mountain goat, serows, chamoises, and tahrs do not belong to the subfamily Caprinae anymore and the Aegodontia taxon is no longer recognized.
This was a very amoosing video (sorry). By the way, can you cover cetaceans sometimes in nearby future? I think they're among the most intriguing animals in the world with some really cool adaptations.
"75,000,000 bovine livestock in the EU" alone, and the most numerous wild bovine species (which I assume is the African Buffalo, although slightly outnumbered by captive Bison) has about 400,000 ... we created a rather absurd world. I hope I'll soon get the opportunity to see some wild European Bison (before the bureaucrats decide they don't belong in Germany). I did run into one of those cow herds in the alps last year when hiking, that was quite the experience 😅very calm and curious. And weirdly "polite" when one of the bigger ones decided they've had enough and started to gently push me. "Not meaning to be rude, but we got some grazing and ruminating to do if you don't mind, have nice day."
In North America it's derived from _French,_ and was applied by French traders who were apparently the first Europeans to see the species of the americas. The word in general is Latin in origin, is directly related through that origin to the english word "beef", really just means "cow" or "cattle", and is present in pretty much every Romance language.
Also, the tribes have a different word in each language-family, so there's not much point worrying about what they would have called them: if a Chickasaw is talking to a Kiowa about the animals nowadays then they'll both usually call them "buffalo".
Having passed through some 40 countries back in the 70's I was witness to many of these 'breeds' - 'species' and enjoyed this global overview of a subject I know very little about. I did get to witness dried yak dung to start the fire for us when we were bed/breakfasting at 12,000 feet in Nepal and it inspired me to totally rethink modern developed world life realizing we were the disaster while these few remaining humans had everything necessary.
Wow! Thank you. I subscribed because it is the first video that explains cattle like it should be! I'm a farm boy and you are amazing! I am going to binge watch your videos. Thanks so much!
Wowwww. I have been researching about Cattle & their origins. It video has easened my research. Just a quick question, what are the origins of the Ankole Cattle? And from which "wild Cattle" do they originate from? It was clear in the video
I want to see lots more on cattle. I grew up in northland NZ where Angus, Hereford and black and white face were raised for meat production. These cattle can be left in large undeveloped land blocks and mustered in when needed. This video left me with more questions than answers. We moved between wild species and domestics and left out so much information. I did appreciate it but want more 😂
Bovines of all sorts have always been some of my most favorite animals. I feel like they are incredibly underrated animals. My all time favorite probably has to be the Cape Buffalo, but make no mistake, i love them all. 💖 Thank you for this video!!!
Sir your video is very informative. Sir please make a video of Indian mammals specially on primates. You can take reference from ( Indian mammals a field guide by Vivek Menon)
Thank you for mentioning the OG cowboys, most do not even know this information. The first cowboys were Mexican and indigenous, even African/black before the more known image of cowboys.
15:38 Cattle herding didn’t exist in pre-Hispanic/pre-Latino/pre-Columbian culture in Amerindian societies. Cattle herding and ranching was introduced by European Spanish colonists who taught tribes they came in contact with their customs (Westernization), originating in the Iberian Peninsula. The earliest evidence of the proto-cowboy hat by the Mexican mestizo Vaqueros, which didn’t exist in pre-Hispanic times, like the sombrero hat that did. The hat has a mixture of Spanish hat-making techniques introduced and Amerindian natural landscape coloration designs. The Stetson hat design, the current cowboy hat we know today, designed by European American John Batterson Stetson of British descent. It can also be said that the English invented bowler hat was actually the most commonly worn hat in the Old West and not the cowboy hat, contrary to popular belief. Also, the majority of cowboys in the US were in fact European Americans, whether that’s European settlers or those pf European descent born in North America. Only 1/4 were black, recently freed slaves
I'm guessing that You are including Vaqueros in the European descent grouping, even though they are mostly of mixed ancestry. Please note that many modern "cowboys" in the western U.S. are of Native American descent, but not of Spanish descent.
The Maasai culture even my teachers have taught about in elementary school, especially around the forms for different economics and forms of currency like cattle. However, I grew up with water buffaloes. In my country the smaller ones are more common but seeing the gigantic ones is a rare and almost happens on occasion. They were one of the first huge animals I have ever seen. No matter which animal, they also make large piles of poop which are surprising easy to clean up when it dries.
@fatdaddy1996, you seem to forget that bovids are the largest and most diverse family of hoofed mammals, muskoxen are not goats, goats are more closely related to cattle than either are to the muskox.
The taurine ox is actually the last surviving subspecies of Palearctic Aurochs (Bos primigenius), while the zebu is the last surviving subspecies of Paleotropical Aurochs (Bos namadicus), the taurine ox and zebu are not closely related as they are subspecies of two separate aurochs species, the palearctic aurochs lived in Europe, Central Asia, and Eastern Asia, while the paleotropical aurochs lived in Africa, Caucasus, the Middle-East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Indian subcontinent, the zebu and taurine ox only have the same lifestyle due to convergent evolution.
Zebu cattle descend from Indian auroch from Mongolia. African cattle might be domestic african auroch. And there's possibly two form of wild yack Just like woodland and plain bison, in America. And there's also lot of recently extinct species. Mostly in the Bubalus Genus in Asia (China, Taiwan, Phillipines etc). As well as European water buffalo, steppe bison, and giant long Horned African buffalo (Syncerus antiquitatis). Or even 3 subspecie of auroch and the kouprey, sadly all of them are extinct and there's little to no hope for kouprey to still exist.
@@consulargeneral8136 I never say they did not exist anymore ? Theres several races of them right now. I just say that just like for european and zebu cattle, they descend from a distinct subspecie of auroch.
Actually, aurochsen constitute the genus Bos as a whole with four species: the extinct Long-Horned Aurochs (Bos acutifrons), the extinct Eritrean Aurochs (Bos buaiensis), the currently living Paleotropical Aurochs (Bos namadicus (cladistically including the Zebu (Bos namadicus indicus))), and the Palearctic Aurochs (Bos primigenius (cladistically including the Taurine Ox (Bos primigenius taurus))).
@deinsilverdrac8695, actually, no it is not, it is widely accepted that the Long-Horned Aurochs (Bos acutifrons) and Eritrean Aurochs (Bos buaiensis) are valid species, the Paleotropical Aurochs (Bos namadicus) and Palearctic Aurochs (Bos primigenius) are the only two species of aurochs alive today, both are extinct in the wild as the only living subspecies of paleotropical aurochs is the domesticated Zebu (Bos namadicus indicus), while the only living subspecies of palearctic aurochs is the domesticated Taurine Ox (Bos primigenius taurus).
Italy doesn't make it's Mozarella from Water Buffalo milk, it makes that cheese from the milk of ordinary eurasian cattle. The reason for the confusion is linguistic: The word "buffalo" was introduced to English from French traders, who used it to refer to American Bison; within French it's just a word for cattle, is of Latin origin, and is basically the same word that is used in Italian, Portuguese, and probably Spanish and all the other surviving Romance languages. The Normans introduced the word "beef" (another word derived from the same root) to English to refer to the meat of cattle, but they didn't normally raise the animals themselves (they left their own peasants and cattle in Normandy, and just used English ones while in England), so they didn't introduce whichever version of the word "buffalo" that they were using. So "beef" refered to the meat of cattle in English, while "buffalo" refered to cattle-like animals that weren't exactly conventional cattle; thus, when people run across the mention of buffalo milk being used to make Mozzarella they assume that this is buffalo in contrast to _cows,_ where it's actually buffalo in contrast to _goats and sheep._ It took me a while to work this out, as it seemed very odd that a major Italian cheese would be made only with the milk of an animal from nowhere near Italy, but the sources I saw almost always just said "buffalo" without clarifying _which species_ of buffalo- eventually I realized that in English it shouldn't be "buffalo" at all, and it was yet another case of a bad translation.
But in fact: Italian Mozzarella is made by cow or buffalo milk or by a mix of both. And the one with the name "Mozzarella di Bufala Campana" have to be produced only with buffalo milk from this region.
I notice that Australia was left off the list re wild cattle. But we have something like 150k of wild water buffalo running around the top end. We also have wild Banteng in the Top End as well.
Yes, I don't know how they are classed tho. They were originally a domesticated strain that have since turned feral. So how their genetics differ, I don't know.
@@kwakagreg : If they're the descendants of domestics, then they _aren't_ wild, but _are_ feral. Wild is for those that were never domestic, feral is for domestics that "went native". The difference is because wild & feral individuals will still be behaviorally different from each other (this can be used to identify which characteristics are specific to a breed, vs being the result of training). It's worth noting that "tame" doesn't always differentiate between wild & domestic ancestry, but "tamed" always means that the individual was _believed_ to be either feral or wild.
@@absalomdraconisHere it's not so easy. The stock came from farmers but meanwhile with genetic tests it was identified that they were pure Banteng. Perhaps the farmers supplemented or built up their stocks with wild-caught animals and then preferred to sell them again when they had the opportunity.
I love your videos. They'e well narated, good b roll and I don't understand why you haven't hit 1M followers yet? The every species of... series is my favourite. I dare you to do every species of shark. Probably too big of a job?
@@indyreno2933 Since these antelopes have many similarities with cattle and their tameability, the Common Eland has been successfully bred in many farms in Africa, however, the longest domestication effort (since 1892) is the breeding farm Askania Nova in Ukraine.
I have a question since when do african cattle have a indo arayan origin. In Zimbabwe and well most parts of africa we have cattle not related to zibu cattle or any eaurasian cow.
There is some flawed information in the video, yes. Another example is the mention of italian Mozzarella cheese- it is not made from the milk of water buffalo, but instead conventional eurasian cattle- the word "buffalo" in the Romance languages simply means "cattle", and refers to a stereotypical cow or bull by default.
@@natureenthusiast660 Uhmmm no african cattle breeds do not have any similarity with any zebu indian cattle. This has been recorded of the remaining undiluted species of african cattle breeds for example in rural areas even in commercial sector mashona cattle donot have any back hump or any lose skin under the neck .
Your video is largely incorrect, there are officially 15 extant cattle species under eight genera and three subtribes, the three extant subtribes of cattle (tribe Bovini) are Pseudorygina (Saola and Fossil Relatives) with only a single extant species being the Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), Bubalina (Buffalo) with six extant species being the Mountain Anoa (Anoa quarlesi), the Lowland Anoa (Anoa depressicornis), the Mindoro Dwarf Buffalo (Bubalus mindorensis), the Asiatic Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), the African Bush Buffalo (Syncerus caffer), and the African Forest Buffalo (Syncerus nanus), and Bovina (True Cattle) with eight extant species: the Kouprey (Bibos sauveli), the Banteng (Bibos javanicus (cladistically including the Bali Cattle (Bibos javanicus domesticus))), the Gaur (Bibos gaurus (cladistically including the Gayal/Mithun (Bibos gaurus frontalis))), the Paleotropical Aurochs (Bos namadicus (cladistically including the Zebu (Bos namadicus indicus))), the Palearctic Aurochs (Bos primigenius (cladistically including the Taurine Ox (Bos primigenius taurus))), the Yak (Poephagus grunniens), the European Bison (Bison bonasus), and the American Bison (Bison bison), the asiatic water buffalo has only two valid subspecies: the Indian Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis bubalis) of the indian subcontinent and the Southeast Asian Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis hosei) of southeast asia with the domestic water buffalo simply being a population of the indian water buffalo, the yak has only two valid subspecies: the Himalayan Yak (Poephagus grunniens grunniens) and the Kunlun Shan Yak (Poephagus grunniens kunlunshanensis) with the domestic yak simply being a population of the himalayan yak.
Be aware of a commenter called Indy Reno posting misleading, irrelevant and flawed taxonomic information. He does this endlessly and ignores all criticism and stubbornly carries on.
Bos can be divided into four subgenera: Bos, Bibos, Novibos, and Poephagus, but these divisions are controversial. The genus has five extant species. However, this may rise to seven if the domesticated varieties are counted as separate species, and nine if the closely related genus Bison is also included
@chingyik123, there are now 72 extant genera of bovids, "Novibos" is not a valid taxon, the kouprey is more closely related to both the gaur and banteng than to any other cattle species alive today, therefore, Novibos is actually a junior synonym of Bibos, which is now widely accepted as a full genus, the same is said for Poephagus, thus officially restricting the Bos genus only to the aurochsen, as far as told, Bibos and Poephagus are not closely related to aurochsen at all, the latter is more widely accepted to be more closely related to the bison (genus Bison) while the former is more widely accepted as the most basal and distantly related from all the other four extant genera of true cattle (subtribe Bovina), since there are actually now 166 species, 72 genera of bovids, 10 subfamilies, and 3 major clades of extant bovids, this is the bovid taxonomy and phylogeny as officially recognized:
Yeah, the person(s) who did this video failed to do any research on use of that word in North America. I'm guessing that they never met or talked with a Native American.
Thanks🎉❤Nice 👍 to SEE n learn positive various Bison,Cattle, n Yak types it helps us through our RUFF daily Issues that make us 😢.Thanks for making us ❤😊!!!
the american bison was not overhunted for no reason. in school they showed us the pictures of the mountains of bison skulls. they killed them all because they were trying to starve the indigineous populations in north america and take their land.
Well, You are somewhat correct. The idea was NOT to starve Native Americans. The idea was to get them to move to Indian Territory (today's Oklahoma). And, it worked. The Natives moved instead of starving.
We have the Zebu, Domestic yak, Domestic water buffaloes, Bali cattle, and Gayal so many different types of bovine we have domesticated and yet most people only know of the European cattle
Fun fact: the bail cattle is a subspecies of the Banteng (Bibos javanicus), the gayal/mithun is a subspecies of the Gaur (Bibos gaurus), the zebu is a subspecies of Paleotropical Aurochs (Bos namadicus), the taurine ox is a subspecies of Palearctic Aurochs (Bos primigenius), the domestic yak is a population of the himalayan yak, which is one of the only two valid subspecies of Yak (Poephagus grunniens), and the domestic water buffalo is a population of the indian water buffalo, which is one of the only two valid subspecies of Asiatic Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis).
What about the Yak in Mongolia ? ! They are Considered to have Meat with a Better taste then the American Beef Cattle. But " They Are Huge " ! And And with a Bad Temperament ! And Inspite of their Massive Size Are Quite " Vigorous & Energetic " when they Battle !
Why tf would anyone want to raise ankole cattle? They have oversized horns and lack the milk and meat yeild of other breeds. South Africa hosts much better Sanga with some eveb being polled (hornless) at least texas longhorns have significant cultural and historic importance for Americans
2:40 these are hardened cheese from Yak's milk locally known as Chhurpi. Very useful for high altitude trekking or activities that need stamina. You can keep them in mouth for hours and they provide a constant source of stamina...speaking from personal experience.
That's an antelope. Also the name nilgai is wrong as neither it is related to the Bovidae family, so calling it 'gai' is misleading, Nor females show any bluish tint. It is only found in males. So the correct name would be blue bull Or locally some call it 'rojda'.
@surajbiradar9827, the nilgai is not really an antelope, its closest living relative, which is the chousingha is actually an antelope, because antelope are a wastebasket taxon, not all antelope species are in the same subfamily (Antilopinae), majority of them fall under multiple different subfamilies, in addition to the bovines being the only subfamily of bovids to include both antelope and non-antelope bovids.
@@indyreno2933 nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus) (/ˈnilˌɡaɪ/, literally meaning "blue cow") is the largest antelope of Asia, and is ubiquitous across the northern Indian subcontinent. It is the sole member of the genus Boselaphus, which was first described by Peter Simon Pallas in 1766. The nilgai stands 1-1.5 m (3.3-4.9 ft) at the shoulder; males weigh 109-288 kg (240-635 lb), and the lighter females 100-213 kg (220-470 lb). A sturdy thin-legged antelope, the nilgai is characterised by a sloping back, a deep neck with a white patch on the throat, a short crest of hair along the neck terminating in a tuft, and white facial spots. A column of pendant coarse hair hangs from the dewlap ridge below the white patch. Sexual dimorphism is prominent - while females and juveniles are orange to tawny, adult males have a bluish-grey coat. Only males possess horns, 15-24 cm (5.9-9.4 in) long
