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Cattle are the most common type of large domesticated farm animal. They are raised for meat, dairy, and as draft animals. Other products from cattle include leather and manure. There are over 1.3 billion cattle in the world today descended from domestication of wild cattle in Turkey thousands of years ago.

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Cattle

Cattle are the most common type of large domesticated farm animal. They are raised for meat, dairy, and as draft animals. Other products from cattle include leather and manure. There are over 1.3 billion cattle in the world today descended from domestication of wild cattle in Turkey thousands of years ago.

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Cattle are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.

They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovine, are the most widespread species of the genus Bos, and are most commonly classified collectively as Bos prim genius. Cattle are raised as livestock for meat (beef and veal), as dairy animals for milk and other dairy products, and as draft animals (oxen / bullocks) (pulling carts, plows and the like). Other products include leather and dung for manure or fuel. In some countries, such as India, cattle are sacred. From as few as eighty progenitors domesticated in southeast Turkey about 10,500 years ago, it is estimated that there are now 1.3 billion cattle in the world today. In 2009, cattle became the first livestock animal to have a fully mapped genome.

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