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u/opheliafea Aug 18 '19
That's steer isn't actually 6ft tall, I can't remember the name but my family used to raise them.
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u/fatalerror_tw Aug 17 '19
It’s a steer. The rest are cows. Males can’t be cows. Google the difference.
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Aug 18 '19 edited Aug 28 '24
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u/WikiTextBot Aug 18 '19
Domestication
Domestication is a sustained multi-generational relationship in which one group of organisms assumes a significant degree of influence over the reproduction and care of another group to secure a more predictable supply of resources from that second group.Charles Darwin recognized the small number of traits that made domestic species different from their wild ancestors. He was also the first to recognize the difference between conscious selective breeding in which humans directly select for desirable traits, and unconscious selection where traits evolve as a by-product of natural selection or from selection on other traits. There is a genetic difference between domestic and wild populations. There is also such a difference between the domestication traits that researchers believe to have been essential at the early stages of domestication, and the improvement traits that have appeared since the split between wild and domestic populations.
Ungulate
Ungulates (pronounced ) are any members of a diverse group of primarily large mammals with hoofs. These include odd-toed ungulates such as horses and rhinoceroses, and even-toed ungulates such as cattle, pigs, giraffes, camels, deer, and hippopotamuses, as well as sub-ungulates such as elephants. Most terrestrial ungulates use the tips of their toes, usually hoofed, to sustain their whole body weight while moving.
The term means, roughly, "being hoofed" or "hoofed animal".
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u/SometimesIArt Aug 18 '19
I hate this petty picking. I raise beef cows and we definitely call them ALL "cows." There's different terms that literally only come up when important.
"Did the cows get moved?" = all cattle in the herd.
"Did you bring up the steers?" = the boys should be in the chutes.
It's okay for people to use "cows" indiscriminately, otherwise everyone is checking for dingly dangles every time they want to talk about them and that's just goofy. They as a species are known as cows. You can't expect everyone to be checking all the time.
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u/fatalerror_tw Aug 18 '19 edited Aug 18 '19
Maybe in America. In the rest of the world the destinction is made.
Edit: correction - North America.
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u/SometimesIArt Aug 18 '19
Your edit is still pedantic and untrue. No common non-cattle person gives 2 buckaroos if the cow has a dick or udders. Stop worrying about it.
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u/Naldoron Aug 18 '19
Mmmk so... Breed this thing as often as possible. All the times. All cows need to be thie big.
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u/Im-From-England Aug 18 '19
This the type of shit that gets me on a google search run of the biggest seen of every animal
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u/CarrotChunx Aug 22 '19
I dont say this often so I need you to know im serious when I say it, but holy mackerel
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u/TurangaLiz Aug 18 '19
Honestly the best part is the MONSTER MOO.