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 ...

(Nairobi, Kenya, September 28, 2020)--Scientists announced today the discovery of a new set of detailed genetic markers and information in African cattle that are associated with valuable traits, such ...

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

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.