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What animals are cows and bulls?

16 votes
? by hollywood_freak

Hens and cockrells are chickens.
Ewes and rams are sheep.
Stallion and mares are horses.

You seem my point?

hollywood_freak | 23 Nov '07, 16:22 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Bovines?

But I think that can include oxen, buffalo and such...

evilhairyhamster | 23 Nov '07, 16:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Cattle

That seems more specific.

evilhairyhamster | 23 Nov '07, 16:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

yeah it must be

cos cows were cultivated so early

cos "cow" means "female" in the registers of lots of other animals, like elephants

alcxxk | 23 Nov '07, 16:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

is that true?

cow elephant?

did i just maje that up?

alcxxk | 23 Nov '07, 16:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

^ Roy Walker

bamos | 23 Nov '07, 16:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

10/10

meths | 23 Nov '07, 16:31 | Send note | Report this | Reply

cattle apparently

or domesticated ungulates

sounds like some kind of insult my dad would call my sisters and I when we misbehaved.

jako_kenako | 23 Nov '07, 16:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

yep

I'd say cattle.

JGJug | 23 Nov '07, 16:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

domesticated ungulates

i need to use this

meths | 23 Nov '07, 16:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Cattle

OBVZ

commandercool | 23 Nov '07, 16:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

cattle

meths | 23 Nov '07, 16:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Ox

Cattle refers to a group of Ox. I hope I'm right

Jimmy_The_Exploder | 23 Nov '07, 16:26 | Send note | Report this | Reply

you're not

JGJug | 23 Nov '07, 16:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply

hmmm

wikipedia says
"Strictly speaking, the singular noun for the domestic bovine was ox: a bull is a male ox and a cow is a female ox" but it needs a citation (always a hmmmmmmmm) and "Cattle is both a plural and a mass noun, but there is no singular equivalent."

a leetul bit contracdictory, but hey! it's wikipedia.

jako_kenako | 23 Nov '07, 16:27 | Send note | Report this | Reply

damn me

sarkyfox | 23 Nov '07, 16:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply

YOU'RE GOING TO HELL

is that ok?

jako_kenako | 23 Nov '07, 16:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

when in doubt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle

yeah - 'cattle' is the term used to define what we know as a cow, but when refering to a single 'cattle' you call it an 'ox'.

Jimmy_The_Exploder | 23 Nov '07, 16:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Can this question be re applied to Dogs

dogs and bitches etc.

hollywood_freak | 23 Nov '07, 16:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

don't think so

just dog.

I call em mutts though.

jako_kenako | 23 Nov '07, 16:32 | Send note | Report this | Reply

8/10

jako_kenako | 23 Nov '07, 16:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

324/10

bamos | 23 Nov '07, 16:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

thank god you're here

the panel up there ^^^ were a bit harsh

meths | 23 Nov '07, 16:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I've got some spare points to give away

by the end of the day. And any use of the word vagina gets a straight eight straight away. Straight eight. mate. Great!

bamos | 23 Nov '07, 16:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

if vagina gets an 8,

i'm sure to be on to a winner with my vulva joke

meths | 23 Nov '07, 16:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

a male dog is called a....

actually i dont know. GOOD question.

meths | 23 Nov '07, 16:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I can't believe

I've had this conversation before :(

Zapsta | 23 Nov '07, 16:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

But Manatees and Sealions/Walrus

are Cows and Bulls...you wouldn't call them cattle though.

H_C_F | 23 Nov '07, 16:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

did I just miss the point?

**Abandon desk**

H_C_F | 23 Nov '07, 16:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

no you hit the nail on the head

female whales are called cows too.

meths | 23 Nov '07, 16:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

H_C_F missed the point.

Meths believes you have hit it but he too is several metres shy of said point.

hollywood_freak | 23 Nov '07, 16:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Ogden Nash explains:

The cow is of the bovine ilk
One end is moo, the other milk.

RockNRollMassacre | 23 Nov '07, 16:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply