Known as the mother cow of Africa, the Boran has been developed over more than 1 000 years to provide modern farmers with a ...

The breed cows in a variety of colour ranging from white, brown and red. The cows weigh somewhere between 300 kg to 500 kgs while bulls weigh from 500 kgs upto 850 kgs depending on the breeds.

The team analysed DNA samples from 48 animals from the five breeds - the West African taurine N'Dama, the long-horned sanga Ankole from Central Africa and three zebu breeds (Boran, Ogaden and ...

A boran bull is a kind of cattle found in East and Southern Africa and it's one of the most expensive cattle in the world. The price this amazing beast was sold for is 8 million South African ...

African cattle breeds are astonishingly diverse, and often quite beautiful. They range from the dark-red Ankole of southern Uganda, with their massive heat-dissipating horns, to the Boran which ...

Wragg, D. et al. PLoS Genet 18, e1010099 (2022) Article PubMed Google Scholar Download references ...