Zebu, India's sacred cow, is indispensable to the meat industry | The domestication of epic horns

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The Zebu conquers the aride. A slender body surmounted by a fatty bump, loose skin and floppy ears: the Zebu is an animal adapted to extreme heat. Humans knew how to tame its wild ancestor to transform him into a long-term companion cut out for great migrations. Set off alongside us to explore arid lands around the world, the will show zebu us that its adaptability is almost limitless.
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Chapters
▷ 0:00:00 - Intro
▷ 0:01:53 - Rajasthan, India: with the Marwari, a caste of herders in the vast Thar desert
▷ 0:03:09 - Zebus, an important animal to ensure the survival of the tribe in the desert
▷ 0:08:42 - Retracing the origins of the zebus in Rakhigarhi, Haryana State in India
▷ 0:15:38 - Omo Valley, in Ethiopia, migratory paths for the zebus, an animal worshipped by local tribes.
▷ 0:20:01 - The zebu bull leap, an important rite passage for the young men
▷ 0:31:12 - Minas Gerais, in Brazil, the zebu is the emblem of agricultural dynasties boasting vast estates
▷ 0:38:28 - Zebus genetically improved to guarantee meat and milk production
▷ 0:39:59 - But this high meat production leads to a huge ecological tragedy
▷ 0:43:08 - Protect the forest by adopting ancient technique such as the rotation
▷ 0:46:58 - Canton of Bern, in Switzerland, where the zebus are beginning to be bred due to climate change
▷ 0:50:40 - Credits

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At the dawn of time, their hoof prints mingle with those of Humans. Step after step, century after century, the great bovine family has accompanied humankind. As essential partners on our greatest territorial conquests, they continue to change the world at our side even today.

In the beginning, 18 million years ago, there lived a tiny, shy, forest-dwelling horned mammal. All alone, through the laws of evolution, this small antelope becomes the ancestor of the Aurochs, now extinct, which turned humans from the status of hunter-gatherers to that of breeders. Then the ox, yak, buffalo and zebu followed. These descendants are now pivotal elements in many cultures across the world. And against a background of species disappearing from the Earth, they are becoming the biggest land mammals.

From their wild forms to the multiple domestic breeds they produced, via the selective hand of humans, the bovines have thus gone side by side with our civilizations throughout our History. This series takes us along their trail.

Original title: Moo! the Epic Horns - The Zebu and the Conquest of the Desert
A film by Xavier Lefebvre

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