Cows stamp catalogue

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Actually, the name cow is used exclusively for a female bovine (Bos taurus). I propose that males may participate and that the theme cow is meant to mean any domesticated bovine descended from the aurochs, so the bovine and the zebu. More

Actually, the term "cow" is used exclusively for a female bovine animal (Bos taurus or Bos primigenius taurus). I propose that males be allowed to participate, and that the term "cow" should refer to any domesticated bovine animal descended from the aurochs, meaning both the cattle and the zebu (Bos indicus or Bos primigenius indicus). Therefore, the aurochs itself is not a cow. Other domesticated bovine animals, such as the water buffalo or carabao (Bubalus arnee bubalis), the banteng (Bos javanicus domesticus), the gayal (Bos gaurus frontalis), and the yak (Bos grunniens), are also not cows.
Cows are important to humans. They provide milk, meat, and hides, among other things. Because of their strength, they are also used as draft animals. Sometimes cows are even considered sacred animals. In Western European countries, this is clearly not the case, given the way they are sometimes kept. In enormous stalls, the animals rarely, if ever, go outside.

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Taurus (1895)