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The charactaristics of the Watusi Cattle are:
Watusi cattle are herbivores, and their diet includes grasses, leaves, and acorns. Their digestive systems have the ability to utilize poor quality and limited quantities of food and water. These survival abilities have allowed them as a breed to not only survive the centuries in Africa but to become established on the continents of Europe, South America, Australia and North America. Their life expectancy is more than 20 years.
The animals' large horns are honeycombed with blood vessels, and are used to thermo-regulate in hot temperatures. Bloodmoving through the horns is cooled by moving air, and then flows back into the body and lowers the animal's body temperature.
The Ankole-Watusi is medium in size, with cows weighing 900 - 1200 pounds and bulls weighing 1000 - 1600 pounds. Newborn calves weigh just 30 - 50 pounds and remain small for several months. This small birth-weight makes Ankole-Watusi bulls useful for breeding to first-calf-heifers of other breeds. During the day, the miniature calves sleep together, with an "auntie" cow nearby for protection. At night, the herd-members sleep together, with the calves in the center of the group for protection. The horns of the adults serve as formidable weapons against any intruders.
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