anoa

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SNPs in 497 cattle from 17 geographically and biologically diverse breeds and two related species (anoa and water buffalo) were used in the project.

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  1. noun A small buffalo (Bubalus or Anoa depressicornis) of Celebes and the Philippines, having short pointed horns.

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  • SNPs in 497 cattle from 17 geographically and biologically diverse breeds and two related species (anoa and water buffalo) were used in the project. —  GEN News Highlights
  • Male elk and deer in the rutting season; male elephants over fifteen years of age; all bears over one year of age, and especially "pet" bears; all gorillas, chimpanzees and orangs over seven years of age (puberty); all adult male baboons, gibbons, rhesus monkeys, callithrix or green monkeys, Japanese red-faced monkeys and large macaques; many adult bison bulls and cows of individually bad temper; also gaur, Old World buffalo, anoa bulls, many individually bad African antelopes, gnus and hartebeests; all lions, tigers, jaguars, leopards, wolves, hyenas, and all male zebras and wild asses over four years of age. —  The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
  • _bos, bubalus, bison, anoa, poephagus, ovibos_, and such like. —  The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
  • The tamarao, or Philippine buffalo, _Bos (Bubalus) mindorensis_, is a smaller animal, in many respects intermediate between the Indian buffalo and the dwarf anoa, or Celebes buffalo (_B. depressicornis_). —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
 

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