ELLENDALE, Minn. — When the Cowell family first started raising cattle, there weren’t many others in their area of southern Minnesota with the Highland breed. But that has changed dramatically in the ...

For the first time in its 163-year history, the Philadelphia Zoo is home to a distinctive breed of African cattle – the Ankole-Watusi – that stands out from the typical herd due to its huge, curved ...

The Pueblo Zoo's impressive long-horned African Watusi, Batik, died recently at the age of 10. Similar to a Texas Longhorn cow, Batik's horns kept reaching longer spans that seemed out of proportion ...

Later, English settlers also brought cattle with them, some of them long-horned, but most so-called "mongrel" cattle, that pulled plows, towed wagons, gave milk every morning and generally proved ...