A second ‘evolutionary jolt’ for African cattle breeds
“African cattle breeds are astonishingly diverse, and often quite beautiful. They range from the dark-red Ankole of southern Uganda, with their enormous, heat-dissipating horns, to the Boran, which thrive in the dusty plains of northern Kenya, to Ethiopia’s sturdy Mursi cattle, with their prominent shoulder humps and hanging dewlaps.
The Kuri that graze on the grasses of Lake Chad are adept swimmers, the Red Fulani can trudge vast distances along the margins of the Sahara, and the famously disease-resistant Sheko inhabit tsetse fly-infested forests of south-west Ethiopia.
All billion or so cattle today descend from the ancient aurochs,
