Cattle

Cattle or Cow are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.

They are raised as Livestock for meat ( beef and and veal ) as dairy animals for milk and other dairy products and as draft animals like pulling carts and plow. Other products include leather and dung for manure or fuel. in India, cattle are sacred. Bos taurus is the European or "taurine" cattle including similar types from Africa and Asia. The aurochs is ancestral to both zebu and taurine cattle. Recently, these three have increasingly been grouped as one species, with Bos primigenius taurus, Bos primigenius indicus and Bos primigenius primigenius as the subspecies. Hybrid individuals and even breeds exist, not only between taurine cattle and zebu such as the sanga cattle , Bos taurus africanus.