page_title: Zebu
section_title: Uses
hierarchical_section_title: Zebu / Uses
caption_attribution_description: Mumbai traffic
context_page_description: A zebu, sometimes known as indicine cattle or humped cattle, is a species or subspecies of domestic cattle originating in South Asia. Zebu are characterised by a fatty hump on their shoulders, a large dewlap, and sometimes drooping ears. They are well adapted to withstanding high temperatures, and are farmed throughout the tropical countries, both as pure zebu and as hybrids with taurine cattle, the other main type of domestic cattle. Zebu are used as draught and riding animals, dairy cattle, and beef cattle, as well as for byproducts such as hides and dung for fuel and manure. Zebu, namely miniature zebu, are kept as companion animals. In 1999, researchers at Texas A&M University successfully cloned a zebu.
context_section_description: Zebu are used as draught and riding animals, dairy cattle, as well as for byproducts such as hides, dung for fuel and manure, and horn for knife handles and the like. Zebu, mostly miniature zebu, are kept as pets.
  B. t. indicus cows commonly have low production of milk. They do not produce milk until maturation later in their lives and do not produce much. When B. t. indicus is crossed with B. t. taurus, production generally increases.
caption: Draft zebu pulling a cart in Mumbai, India
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