Bali cattle

Bali cattle
Domesticated
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Bovinae
Genus: Bos
Species: B. javanicus domesticus
Binomial name
Bos javanicus domesticus
Linnaeus,1823

The Bali cattle (Bos javanicus domesticus) are a domesticated form of the banteng. Bali cattle were an important source of meat and are used for plowing.

Introduction

The Bali cattle were introduced to East Timor, Java and Australia including the Northern Territory as livestock but they escaped from captivity and started to increase in large numbers and damaging crops.

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