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Cattle species
Shared species

1, a common cow, is widely distributed and abundant, which is closely related to human life.

2. Yak, with knee-length hair, can be cold-resistant, cold-resistant, and adapt to the anoxic plateau and its ecological conditions. It is a unique livestock breed in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China, and its milk, meat, skin and hair are important living resources for local herders.

3. Bison, such as American bison and European bison. It can be hybridized with common cattle breeds of Bovine to produce heterosis and provide useful genes for cultivating new breeds.

4. Buffalo is the main draught animal in rice area.

5, yellow cattle, short horns, fur is mostly yellow-brown or black, short hair. It is mainly used for plowing or pulling carts. Meat can be eaten and skin can be tanned. It is one of the important draft animals. ?

Extended data

common descent

According to the unearthed bull's head bone fossils and ancient murals, it can be proved that ordinary cattle originated from Bos primie-nius and began to be domesticated in Neolithic Age.

The remains of cattle were found in West Asia, North Africa and continental Europe. Most scholars believe that ordinary cattle were domesticated in Central Asia at the earliest, and then extended to Europe, China and Asia. Asia is the habitat of bison. Up to now, many of them still live in the wild, while in Europe and North America, bison have disappeared except for a few zoos and protected areas.

Fossil materials of the ancestors of China Yellow Cattle have also been found in many places in the north and south, such as the bull's head bones displayed in Datong Museum, which have been identified for 70,000 years. The bone core about 1 m in the Anhui Provincial Museum was unearthed in the late Pleistocene strata in Huaibei area. In addition, ten thousand years ago, the original cow fossils and bison remains were also found in Yushu County, Northeast China.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Niu