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Greenhouse gas percentage?

@Chiswckchap As Lula has been in power for a while now so there is less deforestation would it be OR to ignore land use change and simply tick the 4 Climate Trace boxes which mention “cattle”? Also we could link to their methodology, which they explain in detail. Then the lead could just say “more than 4%” which is not likely to change for years.

I mean although the FAO is presumably a more reliable source than Climate Trace a lot has changed since 2015, and I have not yet been able to find the FAO methodology. Chidgk1 (talk) 07:17, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

It sounds extremely risky to me, so please, let's not do it. Further, this article is currently going through a GAN review, so it's definitely not a great moment. A third thing: this is not the right article for intricate detail on environmental matters, as it's the top-level article on all things Cattle; we already have Environmental impact of cattle production for exactly that subject. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:22, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Ah thanks I did not notice that article - I will move some detail there and ask on that talk page Chidgk1 (talk) 13:20, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

OK I have put a lot of detail in the main article and the answer seems to be between 4% and 12%. If anyone from the FAO is reading this where are your methodology and error bars please? Chidgk1 (talk) 12:35, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

I don't think you'll get an answer that way, and I do think your own methodology of calculation and inference is extremely close to the WP:OR boundary. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:14, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Gayal

According to All the Mammals of the world there are 4 species of cattle: Bos frontalis, Bos domesticus, Bos taurus and Bos indicus. Pls can you change it?

Yes, we can add a note about the species. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:31, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Cobbes Farm Museum

One of the images used in this article (and elsewhere) is labelled "Cobbes Farm Museum, England". There is no such place. I suspect the photo was actually taken at Cogges Manor Farm near Oxford, but that's just a guess. Ef80 (talk) 17:45, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Certainly the place. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:48, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Issue in File:Kibegwa 2023 rumen microbiome.png

File:Kibegwa 2023 rumen microbiome.png is displayed in section Cattle § Digestive system. The source of the image is "Fig 1. Phylogenetic classification of the rumen microbiome as revealed by metagenomic analysis." from paper "Diversity and functional analysis of rumen and fecal microbial communities associated with dietary changes in crossbreed dairy cattle" by Kibegwa et al.

In bottom center of the image (labeled "a", captioned a. Pie chart for microbial classification at the domain level. Averages are from all fecal and rumen liquor samples.), a small pie chart is split into three parts. Arrows from these slices point to three corresponding bar charts. The arrow from the blue (Archaea) slice points to a bar chart (labeled "e", captioned e. Stacked bar plot of relative abundance of the dominant phyla in the Eukaryota domain.) with six items:

• Arthropoda
• Streptophyta
• Chordata
• Ascomycota
• Other Eukaryota
• unclassified (Eukaryota)

Arrow from the grey (Eukaryota) slice points to a bar chart with:

• Other archaea
• Crenarchaeota
• Euryarchaeota

It seems that there is a mix-up both in the original paper and in the file on Commons. Either the blue and grey parts are mixed up, or the arrows from pie chart to bar charts are wrong. I couldn't find errata for this paper.

Pinging User:InformationToKnowledge, the original uploader of the image, who also added it in Special:Diff/1211775813. —⁠andrybak (talk) 19:03, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Best would be a bit of rearranging using a raster graphics editor. Chiswick Chap (talk) 04:07, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 September 2024

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Young male cattle are called bull calves, once they are castrated they are called steers for the first 12 months then they are bullocks or oxen. 58.179.75.144 (talk) 20:36, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

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