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A zebu hybrid cow was found dead, and strange incisions were found on its body.
These species do not share other mutations, so taurine cattle, zebu, banteng, and gayal all occupy separate branches in the network.
But the number of animals with the protective adaptation is dwindling, as local farmers give up their taurine herds for large zebu animals.
I remember these French people would get up and shout 'Come on, it's time to do the zebu dance!
The zebu, or Brahmin was bred from the Indian subspecies of probably 6,000 years later.
The zebu that formed the basis of Brazil's nelore cattle herd came from India.
East Coast Fever, for instance, hits non-indigenous but meaty breeds of cattle harder than the scrawny, local zebu.
Their zebu herd is their pride, and just before getting married, the young Bara men must steal a zebu to prove their maturity and virility!
Our driver will leave you to the jetty, a carted zebu transfer you to the shore, then take a boat to transfer you to Anakao.
On the bovine family tree, zebu are ten times further removed from the three members of the B. taurus group than those three are from one another.
The zebu, animal symbolism here is primarily used to give manure, virtually the only source of fertilizer for malagasy farmers.
None of them merit the same pious attention as our own original zebu.
Janecek et al. found an anomalous association of yak with taurine cattle, which was explained by the sampling of an animal descending from a zebu via the maternal lineage.
Presumably, Hanotte said, trade also brought zebu bulls that farmers interbred with domesticated taurine cows, producing the mixed herds of today.
Furthermore, it is assumed that introgressions have occurred in this breed mainly from Indian zebu breeds in the recent millennia.
The first case of spongiform encephalopathy in a zebu was identified in a zoo in Switzerland.
Brahman, also called zebu, any of several varieties of cattle originating in India and crossbred in the United States with improved beef breeds, producing the hardy beef animal known as the American Brahman.
In particular, the westerly cattle lack the shoulder humps of zebu, the Indian breed. Those who support the idea of a single domestication suggest that the distinctions could be the result of subsequent selective breeding.
But it also suggests that, when trade eventually brought Indian cattle to Africa, the zebu took the fancy of African stock-breeders, who deliberately studded their females with Indian males.
Despite their limited resources, the local authorities participated actively in the undertaking and the Prefect of the Region covered the cost of a zebu sacrificed on the day of the inauguration.
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This zebu was kept fastened to a tree, and Rossetti loved to exhibit it and point out its beauties with his maulstick.
The cocoa of zebu is reported to be equal in excellence to that of the Caracas.
In zebu handsome cotton rugs are made, and in Panay a variety of stuffs of sundry materials.
The zebu is not only valuable for beef breeding purposes but is probably unequaled in the capacity of a draft ox.
The zebu, or sacred bull of India, shows his mathematical qualities to a pronounced degree.
One of these it zebu, which is10 fifty leguas in circumference.
Well, dear, the crocodile has great teeth and would eat the zebu.
Whatever you think of, it's probably not a herd of zebu, or yak-crosses, or bison-crosses or suborns.
How long do you think it would take the zebu to beat the crocodile?
The female offspring of a male Zebu and a female gayal was mated with a male Bison.
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