Chairlady of Esupuko CBO Brookside in Kajiado, Laisa Mpoye, at her home in Kajiado where she has 300 Zebu cows. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard] Scientists have discovered new information on African cattle ...

Every year, millions of cattle die of trypanosomosis -- among the ten diseases of cattle with the greatest impact on the poor. In Africa the disease is known as "Nagana", which translates literally as ...

A world-first genetic study of cattle in Africa has revealed clues which could help secure the future of meat and dairy production on the continent. Scientists in England and East Africa carried out ...

For the first time in its 163-year history, the Philadelphia Zoo is home to a distinctive breed of African cattle – the Ankole-Watusi – that stands out from the typical herd due to its huge, curved ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Geneticist and anthropologists previously suspected that ancient Africans domesticated cattle native to the African continent nearly 10,000 years ago. Now, a team of University of ...

The East African cattle group is a valuable genetic resource with a complex origin. The first African cattle were of taurine type Bos taurus (Gifford-Gonzalez and Hanotte, 2011). According to latest ...

Olivier Hanotte receives funding through ILRI from the Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea, the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock (CRP Livestock ...

Cattle were introduced to the American continent by the Spanish Conquerors, who transported the first animals to the Caribbean Islands after the first trip of Columbus in 1492. The founding population ...

Though the first thought that may come to mind with the word "Watusi" is a crazy dance fad in the 1960s, that was just a frivolous flash-in-the-pan compared to what the Watusi cattle breed represents.

A 'world-first' study of the genomes of indigenous cattle in Africa has revealed vital clues that will help secure the future of cattle production on the continent. Cattle are an increasingly ...