Re: Moo! (was: The Birds and the Bees of Gender)

Douglas Koller wrote:

> Joshua Shinavier wrote:
> > Maybe "cattle" can be used for both?
>
> The Chambers Dictionary imparts:
>
> cattle - bovine mammals of the genus _Bos_, esp. oxen, bulls, and cows;
> domesticated mammals including oxen, etc. and also horses, sheep, etc.
> (archaic)
As I said, I would translate _cattle_ as _ganado_ (which doesn't mean I'd=
 translate it
right); the Spanish word _ganado_ can be used for any kind of domestic...=
 herbivora.
If you whant to be more specific you would say _ganado bovino_ (or even _=
ganado
vacuno_) for bulls, cows and oxens, but there also exists _ganado equino_=
 (horses),
_ganado porcino_ (hogs), _ganado ovino_ (sheep), etc.

But in most context if you don't speciffy _ganado_ will be used of bovine=
s, at least
in countries like Colombia where there are not big extentions of sheep or=
 goats
livestocking.  Probably the word _cattle_ has undergone that change: from=
 refering to
any kind of livestock has narrowed to mean only bovines.

> Kou
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