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The zebu (/ ˈ z iː b (j) uː, ˈ z eɪ b uː /; Bos indicus [4]), sometimes known in the plural as indicine cattle, Camel cow or humped cattle, is a species or subspecies of domestic cattle originating in South Asia. [5] Zebu, like many Sanga cattle breeds, differs from taurine cattle by a fatty hump on their shoulders, a large dewlap, and
The Miniature Zebu was established as a breed in the United States with the formation of the International Miniature Zebu Association, a breed registry, in 1991. [1]: 245 At that time, there were small zebuine cattle in twenty-three American zoos, and others were held by some fifty private owners. The parent stock had originally been imported ...
20th century authors date the first Sanga cattle, which originated through by crossing in of Zebu bulls in northeast and east Africa, from 1600 BCE onward. [2] Kim et al. (2020) reports a consensus date of 700 AD among contemporary researchers and their own estimate date of 950–1250 AD. [ 3 ]
The Abyssinian Shorthorned Zebu is an Ethiopian breed or group of breeds of zebuine cattle. It is not reported to DAD-IS as a breed. [1] Breeds or strains of the Abyssinian Shorthorned Zebu include: [2] [3]: 8 the Adwa; the Ambo; the Arsi or Arusi; the Bale; the Goffa or Goffa Dwarf; the Guraghe; the Hammer; the Harar; the Jem-Jem or Black ...
The Australian Milking Zebu (AMZ) is a composite breed of dairy cattle, developed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia during the mid-1950s. To develop the breed, the CSIRO bred Sahiwal and Red Sindhi cattle from Pakistan with Jersey cattle .
The object of savika is to bring the zebu to the ground by its horns or hump.. Savika, [a] also savik'omby or savika omby (lit. ' to cling to the back of a zebu '), [2] is a traditional zebu-wrestling sport of Madagascar's Betsileo people, in which fighters, called mpisavika, attempt to bring a zebu ox to the ground by its horns or hump.
The Zebu element was added in 1920, through the introduction of one Sahiwal bull imported from Pusa, India. [ 7 ] Apart from the Indian Taylor breed, and the newly developed Australian Milking Zebu , the Jamaican Hope is the only tropical dairy breed that results from crossing Zebu with regular cattle.
Jallikattu (or Sallikkattu), also known as Eru Taḻuvuṭal and Manju-virattu, [2] is a traditional event in which a zebu bull (Bos indicus), such as the Pulikulam [3] or Kangayam breeds, [4] is released into a crowd of people, and many people attempt to grab the large hump on the bull's back with both arms and hang on to it while the bull attempts to escape.