im no expert, but can cows actually be found in the wild? is there such a thing as a cow natural habitat where wild cows roam freely, or do 100% of the planets cattle population exist in complete harvest?
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whats with all the cow-related threads today?
Good question. They probably do because...well, because.
Here's what I think.
Cows have been domesticated for so long that they've bred into farms and know nothing of the wild.
So you see, there may have been wild cows many years ago. But now... not anymore.
At 12/10/06 01:11 PM, fleep11 wrote: whats with all the cow-related threads today?
Cows are all the rage this season.
I hardly ever come here anymore....
I've never seen a cow run freely before.
But I guess they've gotta come from somewhere.
Yes but i can't promise that they're alive..
Pestiside can't kill me!
They used to be all over the place but since the landing of humans that has changed quite a bit.
sometimes cows escape and then they go wild but farmers usually catch them before this happens...and sometimes in a herd you get one cow that's absolutely crazy that attacks you for no reason
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At 12/10/06 01:18 PM, T-N-T wrote: Its like chickens,
Where are the wild chickens????? D=
true, you dont get wild chickens, you get plenty of wild ducks, but not chickens,
you ofcourse, get no wild pigs either, not the type you get your bacon from anyways, you get plenty of wild boars which are basicly pigs
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At 12/10/06 01:10 PM, TommyGun wrote: im no expert, but can cows actually be found in the wild? is there such a thing as a cow natural habitat where wild cows roam freely, or do 100% of the planets cattle population exist in complete harvest?
Cows as we know them are completely demesticated. However, they evolved from the same thing as buffalo.
At 12/10/06 01:18 PM, T-N-T wrote: Its like chickens,
Where are the wild chickens????? D=
Chickens come from the Red Junglefowl, which lives in China.
yes, there are wild cows...
not nessacarily the black and white patched ones you picture when you think of a cow, but bovines none the less...
theres the Musk Ox for example, which is a thick furred Ox found in cold climates like the Arctic, theres also a yolk called a Bo... which is a type of wild cow found in Africa, and bits of Europe.
and theres them thar big shaggy cows with the Emo hair-do, they're wild and found up mountains around Asia.
so yes... there is such a thing as a wild or feral cow.
google it or something for more info
as a wise man once said - " i don't know whats i be doin'... "
At 12/10/06 01:13 PM, ArthurGhostly wrote: Just like you hardly ever see wild horses, I guess.
Depending on where you live.
Makes sense. The horse is actually a result of specific breeding in what is now Turkey. A wild horse wouldn't look like what you might traditionally see in a stable.
At 12/10/06 01:32 PM, WoebegonenessIsSad wrote: Cows as we know them are completely demesticated. However, they evolved from the same thing as buffalo.
That is either completely off-base or you most be speaking in VERY general terms. As in, going back a few hundred-million years. Because the cow was domesticated in Asia first, by the Chinese, then brought to Europe THEN brought to America.
I actually went to the trouble of looking it up out of curiosity. Though they share the shame sub family they are of two different Genus. A cow is as much of a relative to a water buffalo as it is to a antelope.
There are wild cows. Infact, there are still Wild Buffalo.
Cows are actually results of millenia of steered evolution, ie. breeding. Maybe the closest to the original cows would be Ayshire (if I remember right) or Yaks.
DOmestic cows gone native due to extermination of humans, might happen, but it has been stated that they have detorriated to the level where they'd freeze to death because they wouldn't understand to move indoors when it snows.
At 12/10/06 01:50 PM, JohnnyWang wrote: Cows are actually results of millenia of steered evolution, ie. breeding. Maybe the closest to the original cows would be Ayshire (if I remember right) or Yaks.
DOmestic cows gone native due to extermination of humans, might happen, but it has been stated that they have detorriated to the level where they'd freeze to death because they wouldn't understand to move indoors when it snows.
What? Cows stay outside when it snows. They also stay outside when it gets amazingly freezing. Cows are insanly rugged and durable creatures that know how to stay warm by bundling together in large packs.
At 12/10/06 01:49 PM, CrimsonEdge wrote: There are wild cows. Infact, there are still Wild Buffalo.
There were never domesticated Buffalo. You're comparing a domesticated animal that may not be in the wild anymore to an animal that was almost wiped out, through hunting, due to anti-American Indian sentiment in the 1800s.
I don't know. I guess my dreams of being a cow expert are shattered.
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i'd imagine there's domesticated buffalo. they sell buffalo meat in stores
At 12/10/06 01:46 PM, MethodMinus wrote: I actually went to the trouble of looking it up out of curiosity. Though they share the shame sub family they are of two different Genus. A cow is as much of a relative to a water buffalo as it is to a antelope.
Yeah, I was just referring to the bovinae sub-family. Cows are actually more related to animals such as the zebu, but nobody really knows what the fuck they look like, so I kept it simple.
I think wild cows are gone,you know ppl hunt them down until extinction
Yes, you can find cows in the wild, but they are quite rare.
At 12/10/06 02:03 PM, WoebegonenessIsSad wrote: Yeah, I was just referring to the bovinae sub-family. Cows are actually more related to animals such as the zebu, but nobody really knows what the fuck they look like, so I kept it simple.
These are the closest genetic relatives to the cow.
Genus Bos
* Aurochs, Bos primigenius (extinct)
* Banteng, Bos javanicus
* Gaur, Bos gaurus
* Gayal, Bos frontalis (Domestic gaur)
* Yak, Bos mutus
* Domestic Cattle, Bos taurus
* Kouprey, Bos sauveli
The zebu IS the domesticated cattle. It is one kind of cow actually. The cow is also know as Bos taurus and the Zebu is a variation known as Bos taurus indicus.
At 12/10/06 01:13 PM, BatDan wrote: Here's what I think.
Cows have been domesticated for so long that they've bred into farms and know nothing of the wild.
So you see, there may have been wild cows many years ago. But now... not anymore.
that sounds about right
There are many relative species of cows that run wild, but I'm not sure about the generic american cow.
At 12/10/06 02:10 PM, AtomicTerrorist wrote:At 12/10/06 01:13 PM, BatDan wrote: Here's what I think.that sounds about right
Cows have been domesticated for so long that they've bred into farms and know nothing of the wild.
So you see, there may have been wild cows many years ago. But now... not anymore.
i thought we'd allready come to the conclusion that wild cows do exsist...
wiki it
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