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**Hraesvelg** · 04-30-2009, 03:04 AM

Originally Posted by Hessah

Hmmmmmm this makes me question myself..

母牛 / 雌牛 indicates that the cow is female..

Does "Cow" have to be female?! It's a loose term for both genders right?

Cows are females, bulls are males.

srabble031 · 04-30-2009, 04:53 AM

w8 cows are females and bulls are males=O!, thought bulls and cows are diffrent breeds or w/e D:

**Hessah** · 04-30-2009, 04:57 AM

Originally Posted by srabble031

w8 cows are females and bulls are males=O!, thought bulls and cows are diffrent breeds or w/e D:

Glad to know I'm not the only one that thought that xD

Although Hrae wouldn't be wrong for something like like this...

**Hraesvelg** · 04-30-2009, 05:04 AM

There are quite a few terms for cattle, but cows are always female. There's a whole section on cattle terminology on wiki, if you'd like to know more.

**Hessah** · 04-30-2009, 05:08 AM

LOL!!

I guess as a kid.. from Asian we learnt that Cow = 牛 which doesn't specify wat gender the animal is...

**Ralath** · 04-30-2009, 05:29 AM

And yet, we have 他，她，and 它 just to make sure we know what gender we are talking about.

=o=

**Hraesvelg** · 04-30-2009, 05:32 AM

Well, cattle is kind of an odd case in English. There aren't any gender-neutral words that can be used in the singular for cattle. A cow and a bull together can be "two cattle", but each one would be referred to either as cow, heifer, bull, steer, calf, etc.

Now, that's not to say if you see a field full of cattle someone won't say "Hey, look at the group of cows." That's not proper or correct, but it is common. So it bring in even more confusion.

**Sparkeh** · 04-30-2009, 09:45 AM

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