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bovine

[boh-vahyn, -vin, -veen] / ˈboʊ vaɪn, -vɪn, -vin /
NOUN
member of genus bos
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Previously, the opinion was that that hominins of this age primarily subsisted on large mammals, such as bovids and rhinoceroses, for one simple reason:

From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2023

The Zambezi dogs are renowned for having mastered the art of preying on African buffalo, enormous and aggressive bovids that few wild dogs dare approach.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2022

Large horn size increases extinction risk in bovids.

From Nature • Apr. 10, 2018

Regarding sexual dimorphism in extant ungulates, see our paper – we have some discussion of dimorphic horn morphology in bovids.

From Scientific American • Jan. 5, 2012




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