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Agriculture · Q518

Animal Husbandry

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 518

Q518

Cattle and buffalo belongs to family

A.
Cammelidae
B.
Suidae
C.
Equidae
D.
None of these
Answer

Answer: Option D

Solution

Answer: Option D
Solution:
Cattle and buffalo belong to family Bovidae.
Bovidae comprises the biological family of cloven-hoofed, ruminant mammals that includes cattle, bison, buffalo, antelopes, and caprines. A member of this family is called a bovid.
With 143 extant species and 300 known extinct species, the family Bovidae consists of 11 major subfamilies and thirteen major tribes. The family evolved 20 million years ago, in the early Miocene.