Interesting Facts about CATTLE ***

Facts about Cattle

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Did you Know? List of Facts about Cattle
Facts are statements which are held to be true and often contrasted with opinions and beliefs. Our unusual and interesting facts about Cattle, trivia and information, including some useful statistics about animals will fascinate everyone from kids and children to adults.

Interesting Facts about Cattle are as follows:

Fact 1 - Definition: Cattle (colloquially cows, bulls, steers etc) are domesticated bovine animals (an animal of the family Bovidae, including cattle, buffaloes and bison)

Fact 2 - The cow is one of the most common animals in the world
Fact 3 - Cattle supplying about 90% of the dairy needs of the world population
Fact 4 - Cattle have 32 teeth
Fact 5 - Males are known as bulls and adult females that have had a calf are known as cows. Females under 3 years old are called heifers. A castrated male is called a steer. A baby cow is called a calf
Fact 6 - The terms "bull", "cow" and "calf" are also used to denote the gender or age of other large animals including Whales, Hippopotamus, camel, Elk and Elephants
Fact 7 - It is estimated that there are 1.3 billion cattle in the world
Fact 8 - Cattle stats and facts
- Weight: 600 to 900 kg
- A newborn calf weighs 25 to 45 kilograms (55 to 99 lb)
- Length: 1.9 to 2.5 metres (6.2 to 8.2 ft) long
- Height: 4.7 inches
- Habitat: Grasslands
- Lifespan: 15 - 25 years
- Speed: Up to 37 mph (60 km/hr)
- Diet: Cattle are herbivores eating mainly tree leaves, grass and ferns. Cattle graze up to 8 hours a day, taking in about 45 kg (100 lb) of feed. Cows can drink up to 35 gallons of water a day
Fact 9 - Cattle have one stomach with four compartments
Fact 10 - Cattle are ruminants, meaning that they have a digestive system that allows use of otherwise indigestible foods by regurgitating and re-chewing them as "cud"
Fact 11 - The cud is then re-swallowed and further digested by specialised microorganisms
Fact 12 - The smallest cow in the world is a Dexter cow from England standing only 33 inches (84 cm)
Fact 13 - A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
Fact 14 - A cow stands up and sits down about 14 times a day
Fact 15 - A cow gives milk for the first time, only after she gives birth to a calf
Fact 16 - Cattle can climb up stairs, but cannot climb down because their knees cannot bend properly
Fact 17 - Cattle have an acute sense of smell and can smell something up to 6 miles away
Fact 18 - The ancestor of domestic cattle are the extinct aurochs