🇨🇳 The cattle breeds of China
6 breeds from China, best known first, across 1 town, fair or pasture.
Cattle towns and fairs of China
🇮🇳 India and 2 moreIndian aurochs
An extinct wild ancestor of zebu cattle that lived in South Asia until the Stone Age.Wild
🇨🇳 China and 2 moreWild yak
A massive, shaggy wild bovine native to the high plateaux and peaks of the HimalayasYak · Beef · Cold-hardy
🇵🇱 Poland and 5 moreAurochs
The wild ancestor of all domestic cattle, extinct since 1627Wild · Long-horned
🇵🇰 Pakistan and 5 moreZebu
Humped, heat-tolerant cattle of South Asia, kept for milk, meat, work and ridingZebu · Dairy · Heat-tolerant
🇮🇳 India and 4 moreGayal
A semi-domesticated bovine of the Eastern Himalayas, kept for meat, milk and ceremonyMithun · Beef
🇨🇳 ChinaYanbian
A humpless yellow breed from north-east China, a draught worker in the rice fieldsTaurine · Draught
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Aurochs: Jaap Rouwenhorst (photograph) DFoidl (GIMP modifications), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Indian aurochs: Jochen Ackermann (User name: Altaileopard ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Gayal: Aditya Kabir, Public domain, source
- Zebu: A. J. T. Johnsingh, WWF-India and NCF, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Wild yak: Jim, the Photographer, CC BY 2.0, source