Kye
| Kye | |
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| A Swiss Braunvieh cou wearin a coubell | |
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Domesticatit
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| Scienteefic clessification | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Mammalia |
| Subcless: | Theria |
| Infracless: | Eutheria |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Faimily: | Bovidae |
| Subfaimily: | Bovinae |
| Genus: | Bos |
| Species: | B. taurus |
| Subspecies: | B. t. primigenius, B. t. indicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Bos taurus Bojanus, 1827[1] |
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| Trinomial name | |
| Bos taurus primigenius, Bos taurus indicus |
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| Bovine range | |
| Synonyms | |
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Bos primigenius, |
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Kye (colloquially cous Inglis: cattle) is a craitur that haes been domesticate for aboot 7,000 year. Thay are uised for milk, for meat, for transport an for pouer.
Names for kye[eedit | eedit soorce]
- Heifer - a young cou
- Mairt - an owse or cou fattened for slauchter
- Cauf (pl. caur) - a babbie cou
- Bull (or bu') - a male cou
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ Grubb, P. (2005). "Bos taurus primigenius". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 637–722. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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