Zebu's at Work - Photo by Ant\u00f4nio Milena (Wikimedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nFor some reason the Zebu seems to be resistant to parasites and disease, which is a pretty decent quality to have, especially when you live in tropical climates.\u00a0 This resistance also makes the Zebu a great candidate for cross breeding.\u00a0 And wouldn’t you know it that they have been bred with native cattle from Africa and Brazil.\u00a0 There we go again trying to create the best animal species known to man.<\/p>\n
Although you may have never heard of this “humped cattle” before, there are actually over 4 million Zebu farms worldwide.\u00a0 India, Brazil and the United States seem to lead the way with these type of farms.\u00a0 If you are not a big fan of observing cattle in an enclosed area then perhaps you need to take a trip to South Asia to view some of the remaining wild Zebu’s.\u00a0 You had better hurry though as habitat destruction is rapidly decreasing the population of this wild version of the Zebu.<\/p>\n
Well, I hoped you enjoyed your Hump Day Fact! See you all tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Since today is Wednesday, which is also known as “Hump Day” here in North America, I figured we would look at some humped cattle.\u00a0 Okay, so they are better known as Zebu, which is pretty fun to say – go ahead and give it a try, “ZEBU”.\u00a0 I told you it was fun.\u00a0 Anyway, the Zebu is a type of domesticated cattle originating in South Asia and is the only species of cattle that can easily adapt to the hot tropical climates.\u00a0 If you don’t feel like going to South Asia to look at this interesting animal, you can always <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,4024],"tags":[348,1739,1740,1737,4025,1736,1738],"yoast_head":"\n
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