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Meanings of zebu in English
Subspecies of cattle from Indian Subcontinent.
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Examples for "bos primigenius indicus"
Examples for "bos primigenius indicus"
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Covariates included days of age and proportion of Bos indicus in the calf and dam.
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Brahmans were bred in the United States from India's Bos Indicus cattle, a bit of shorthorn and sprinkling of other genetics, Vanessa says.
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Conclusions: Some genomic regions and some positional candidate genes reported in this study have not been previously reported for feed efficiency traits in Bos indicus.
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This 2-yr study evaluated the growth and puberty attainment of Bos indicus-influenced beef heifers offered 2 different postweaning concentrate supplementation amounts and delivery frequencies.
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Cattle domestication occurred at least twice independently and gave rise to the modern taurine and indicine cattle breeds.
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The humped cattle in India "seldom seek shade, and never go into the water and there stand knee-deep, like the cattle of Europe."
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The humped cattle were domesticated, as may be seen on the Egyptian monuments, at least as early as the twelfth dynasty, that is 2100 B.C.
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Pickering also in his 'Races of Man' 1850 page 274 notices the peculiar grunt-like character of the voice of the humped cattle.
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'The Indian Field' 1858 page 74 where Mr. Blyth gives his authorities with respect to the feral humped cattle.
Usage of zebu in English
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Then every time the crocodile wasn't looking the zebu would butt him.
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For body measurements, taurine breeds took lower average values than the zebu breeds.
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The horns of the zebu variety are sometimes four feet long.
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The zebu and the two European species are now extinct in a wild state.
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There is a variety of the zebu-orperhaps a distinct species-knownas the Dante.
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It looked like a sacred bull, a great white zebu.
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The zebu, or sacred bull of India, shows his mathematical qualities to a pronounced degree.
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Well, that would be one up for the zebu.
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A herd of zebu is the equivalent of a flashy car or a big house elsewhere.
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There is no wild "zebu," and some of the breeds are of enormous size.
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Probably, breeding decisions promoting the crosses between zebu-like and taurine cattle are underlying this geographical pattern of variation.
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But the zebu would keep on.
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Man drinks the milk of about a dozen other animals including the camel, reindeer, llama zebu, water buffalo, ass.
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A zebu calf became emaciated.
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Population genetic differentiation (F ST) values across sliding windows were estimated between zebu and reference combined taurine breeds.
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Well, then, the zebu would come and live near the sandbank too-justso far as the crocodile would never see him.
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