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Cow female black white🐄

Photo: Keith Weller/USDA · Public domain

SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
Mammals

🐄Cow

Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758

ウシ（牛）は、哺乳綱偶蹄目ウシ科ウシ亜科の動物（ウシ族）である。以下では分類上の狭義である「家畜ウシ（Bos taurus）」について解説する。

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
6
vs you
≈ 12× your weight
Also called
cattle
Conservation status
Not evaluated

The IUCN Red List has not assessed Bos taurus yet.

Key measurements
Body mass
750 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
1.28 m
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Cow

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
750 kg
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: questionable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Shoulder height
1.28 m1.25–1.32 m · typical rangenot stated
Details ↓

"Weight ranges from 147 kilograms to 1363 kilograms, and height from 49-52 inches." Species-level statement for domestic cattle; 49-52 in = 1.245-1.321 m, value is the midpoint. Measurement point not stated (withers by convention). Individual breeds fall well outside this typical band (e.g. dwarf zebu, large draft breeds).

Source: Animal Diversity Web (Univ. Michigan), Bos taurus account (T. Dewey & J. Ng), https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Bos_taurus/ · see citation

Maximum lifespan
20 years
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: questionable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
277 days
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: questionable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
1
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: questionable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Volume l
750 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Cow yet: body length, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderArtiodactyla
  5. ›familyBovidae
  6. ›genusBos
  7. ›speciesBos taurus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  3. familyBovidae
  4. subfamilyBovinae
All 15 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  12. suborderRuminantia
  13. infraorderPecora
  14. familyBovidae
  15. subfamilyBovinae
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Closest relative on this site
🐂 Aurochs — last shared an ancestor ≈ 0.3 million years ago.
In other languages
bydło domowe (pl), Bos taurus (fr), Bos primigenius taurus (es), Bos taurus taurus (it), بقر (ar), домашно говедо (bg) … and 28 more languages
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Cow female black white01 Highland cattle in Trotternish by Romaniviatores14.6.21 3 Llanfair DC 38 (51249530235)
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