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Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.

They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae, are the most widespread species of the genus Bos, and are most commonly classified collectively as Bos taurus.

Cattle are raised as livestock for meat (beef and veal), as dairy animals for milk and other dairy products, and as draft animals (oxen or bullocks that pull carts, plows and other implements).

Other products include leather and dung for manure or fuel.

In some regions, such as parts of India, cattle have significant religious meaning.

From as few as 80 progenitors domesticated in southeast Turkey about 10,500 years ago, according to an estimate from 2011, there are 1.4 billion cattle in the world.

In 2009, cattle became one of the first livestock animals to have a fully mapped genome.

Some consider cattle the oldest form of wealth, and cattle raiding consequently one of the earliest forms of theft.

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus.

It is an odd-toed ungulate mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae.

The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, Eohippus, into the large, single-toed animal of today.

Humans began to domesticate horses around 4000 BC, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BC.

Horses in the subspecies caballus are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses.

These feral populations are not true wild horses, as this term is used to describe horses that have never been domesticated, such as the endangered Przewalski's horse, a separate subspecies, and the only remaining true wild horse.

There is an extensive, specialized vocabulary used to describe equine-related concepts, covering everything from anatomy to life stages, size, colors, markings, breeds, locomotion, and behavior.

A ranch is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to the practice of ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle or sheep for meat or wool.

The word most often applies to livestock-raising operations in Mexico, the Western United States and Canada, though there are ranches in other areas.

People who own or operate a ranch are called ranchers, cattlemen, or stockgrowers.

Ranching is also a method used to raise less common livestock such as elk, American bison or even ostrich, emu, and alpaca.