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livestock  

Definition

  • The term LIVESTOCK refers to domesticated animals utilized for food, fibers, hides, fertilizer, and/or labor. The category of livestock includes such domesticated ungulates as bison, camels, cattle, donkeys, goats, horses, llamas, reindeer, sheep, swine/pigs, water buffaloes, and yaks, with cattle and sheep being the two most abundant types of livestock worldwide. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Livestock]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-DZ2G61GZ-L

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