All 18 “Wild Cattle” Species & The History of Domestic Cattle

Discover all 18 species from the tribe, Bovini collectively referred to as wild cattle and learn about where and when cattle were domesticated. This video explores the species and cattle breeds on 6 continents and delves into how these impressive animals are used by various cultures.

00:00 Introduction
01:04 Wild Yak
02:17 Domestic Yak
03:10 Wild Water Buffalo
03:54 Domestic Water Buffalo
04:58 Indian Cattle
06:24 African Cattle
08:24 African Buffalo
10:27 European Cattle
12:07 European Bison
13:30 American Bison
16:17 North American Cattle
16:40 South American Cattle
18:08 Kiwi & Australian Cattle
19:33 Banteng & Bali Cattle
20:51 Saola, Kouprey & Tamaraw
21:22 Mountain & Lowland Anoas
22:28 Gaur & Gayal

More rabbit holes to dive into!

Creative Commons Attribution
Australian Stockman - CSIRO / Wiki Commons CC BY 3
Beefalo cow and calf - Mark Spearman / WikiCommons CC BY 2
Saola - Bill Robichaud / Flickr CC BY 2

Editorial Attribution
Photos
Video

Graphics/Data Attribution
Satellite Imagery - NASA
Global cattle & water buffalo distributions in 2015 - Harvard Dataverse

Further Attribution

Sources & Further Reading
Listed below are the sources used to create the video.

Animal Diversity
Encyclopedia Britannica
IUCN Red List
Wikipedia

Taurine, Zebu & Yak Domestication
Wild Yak
Range of the Domestic Yak | Qi et al.
Domestic Yaks

FULL SOURCE LIST
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[johobi]

Awesome video, thank you so much! One detail: recently American Bison have also been reeintroduced into the Mexican state of Coahulia.

[peterfoster]

I'm a retired dairy herdsman in Lancashire UK; I found this video fascinating, thank you.

[jonasbowles]

Awesome video! As someone who’s grown up around North American cattle species and bison, it was super cool to learn about quite a few cattle species I had never heard of before! Keep up the great work, I hope your channel continues to grow because you deserve it!!

[kendallkahl]

Yak are becoming popular in Montana, North Dakota, Alaska and other cold states. In Alaska their wool has people raising them with Llama and Alpaca, even musk ox to experiment with fiber blends to fend off Arctic level cold.

[sethblandford]

I love cattle I’m a wetland ecologist and actually focus my study on turtles but I have always had a soft spot for cattle cause I grew up around them and spent a lot of my undergraduate studying them so I love these guys

[i.m.evilhomer]

It's a shame that the ancestors of modern domesticated cattle are extinct. It is good to know there are conservation groups breeding Auroch-like taurine cattle & releasing them back in the wild. I wonder if the same can be done for the zebu. I have heard that feral zebu were introduced to India's Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary to entice rare native predators, such as the Asiatic lion.

[Mordecute]

I had the unique pleasure of working with one of the lead tiger biologists of Bhutan. He was very comfortable working with tigers, but said the one time he had caught a Gaur in a live trap, he was too scared to go near it. I got to analyze some camera trap images of Gaur and they are terrifying and incredible to watch, we caught one chasing an elephant.

[Lurts]

Would love if you eventually made a video on all the world's wild pigs.

[MarcPagan]

Thanks for a fun and interesting video.

For pure cuteness and friendliness, I'm a fan of the very shaggy Highland breed from Scotland.

[flubbah]

Super interesting video! I do think it’s important to mention that the American Bison were purposely hunted to extinction to get rid of the tribes that depended on them though.

[lucasjames]

This channel deserves a million subscribers!! Excellent video, as always!! 🐮

[SeliahK]

This was a really good video. I just wanted to point something out in regards to our buffalo here in the U.S.

Their numbers did not decline only due to overhunting. They were deliberately slaughtered - massacred by the thousands - as a tactic by colonists, government agents and military specifically BECAUSE our indigenous plains people relied so much on them. They were slaughtered to try and destroy indigenous tribes on the plains.

I'm sure overhunting contributed, but it was by NO means the primary cause.

[louisvonmalaise]

No idea I needed to know about different species of cattle but now I do and I’m so glad I got to watch this. Fascinating

[rankingresearchdata]

Yak, Gaur (beast), water buffalo, zebu found in India 🇮🇳

[bradleytenderholt]

Wow! Thank you. I subscribed because it is the first video that explains cattle like it should be!
I'm a farm boy and you are amazing!
I am going to binge watch your videos. Thanks so much!

[aylen]

1:38 I love the transition from black to white yak. Well done.

[artesemenrolacao]

I’m Brazilian and would like to thank you for all the research that went into my country’s part, you got everything right

[CaesarT]

Preserve wild cattle before too late 🙏🏿
Thank you for your time for common good
No more deforestation 🦚🌳🪷

[clairecakes]

Fun fact: Buffalo bill was actually a show that happened after the frontier closed to reiterate the conquering of the frontier. And most cowboys were not the lonesome explorers that one might think of. Being in the cattle business was hard labor.

[kangtheconqueror]

I regularly watch your videos. Your Topic selection is great, specially unknown topics like species of fox, cattle etc. Love from Bangladesh. 🇧🇩