• Question: Hens and cockerells are the male and female equivalents of the same animal, the chicken, but of which animal are cows and bulls?

    Asked by matthewb to Alex, Jools, Lynz, Matt, Rika on 15 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Lyndsey Fox

      Lyndsey Fox answered on 15 Jun 2011:


      Cattle is the correct term, or if you’re talking to zoologists: Bovine.

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