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Перевод: zebu

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зебу

Тезаурус:

1. In particular, the pretty, milky little Jersey seems to be successful in the tropics, especially if boosted with a small proportion of zebu blood; these zebu-Jerseys are described in the sections for the appropriate countries of origin such as India, Jamaica and Brazil.
2. Lord David Stuart, formerly president of the Belted Galloway breed society, wrote an interesting and detailed history of belted cattle which includes ninth-century Bohemians, belted mithans and Indian zebu as well as European belted breeds such as the Lakenvelder: he shows that the belted factor is found in cattle in Britain, Holland, Switzerland, Austria and Germany and also in the multitudinous herds of Mongolia.
3. It also crosses successfully with the Sahiwal zebu of Pakistan.
4. Its heat tolerance is so exceptional for a temperate breed that many people have tried to prove a more direct relationship with the zebu, even detecting the slight trace of a hump.
5. During the reign of George III a breeder imported a white, horned Indian zebu to experiment by crossing it with Galloway bulls, but the results are not known.
6. The tiny animal is the result of more than five generations of selective breeding - which began with the six-foot tall, 2,000 pound Indo-Brazilian zebu.
7. They are very friendly and docile with those they know and trust and respond readily to sympathetic handling (which, again, is characteristic of the zebu) but the bulls can be as vicious and spiteful as any Spanish fighting bull.
8. Kenyan Ayrshire bulls have been mated with disease-resistant Boran zebu cows since 1919 and the breed has proved its ability to produce high-quality milk and good meat at low levels of nutrition, exhibiting admirable drought tolerance.
9. His fellows include those who brought bananas from the Indian Ocean coast to the highlands of east Africa, those who brought cassava from the Atlantic coast of Angola to the forests of Zaire, and those who first trekked the hump-backed Zebu cattle down the valley of the Nile.
10. The mini cow produces three to four litres of milk a day - compared with six litres produced by a full-sized zebu - and survives on a tenth the grassland.
11. The same shading, but without such a range of hair colours, is seen in the Podolian greys of Italy and eastern Europe and also in the Indian zebu.