Cattle
From cattle to beefMan has been keeping beef cattle as domestic animals for millennia. This probably started in what is now the Sahara desert. In the 7th Millennium before Christ there was then a much milder climate.
Cattle went virtually everywhere that people did. Over the centuries many, often local, breeds arose. Some are better suited to milk production, others more to meat production and yet others more for their appearance.
Cattle-breeding is one of mankind’s most important sources of meat, milk and leather. Special types are bred depending upon the purpose for which the cattle are being kept. Beef cattle that provide a large meat yield ('thick rumped'), or in order to give more milk. Breeding for milk yield means the genetic diversity of livestock is constantly dwindling. Good bulls procreate many thousands of progeny through artificial insemination.