Taurine cattle
Humpless cattle descended from aurochs domesticated in the Near East, the type found across Europe and much of Africa and the Americas.
Also: Bos taurus, humpless cattle, European cattle
Taurine cattle are the humpless branch of domestic cattle, often written Bos taurus or Bos taurus taurus. They descend from aurochs tamed in the Fertile Crescent and spread with early farmers into Europe and North Africa. Almost every European breed is taurine, from the Holstein Friesian and the Jersey to the Highland and the Chianina, and so are the West African Shorthorn and the N'Dama, which tolerate the tsetse-borne disease trypanosomiasis better than most cattle. Taurine cattle generally do best in temperate climates, with less tolerance of tropical heat and ticks than zebu. They interbreed freely with zebu, and many of the world's cattle carry both ancestries.