Cattle
Bos taurus
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Bos taurus
- Class
- Mammal
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Bovidae
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Size
- Large (2–4 m)
- Active
- By day
- Continent
- Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
- Habitat
- Grassland
- Conservation status
- Not evaluated (domestic)
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- Cows have preferred companions, and their heart rate goes up when they are separated from them.
- All domestic cattle descend from the extinct wild aurochs, tamed about 10,000 years ago.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q830 · All animals · All entries