White Fulani cattle are an important beef breed of cattle throughout the area conquered by the
Fulani people and beyond in the
Sahel
The Sahel (; ar, ساحل ' , "coast, shore") is a region in North Africa. It is defined as the ecoclimatic and biogeographic realm of transition between the Sahara to the north and the Sudanian savanna to the south. Having a hot semi-arid c ...
zone of Africa. They are mostly
Zebu but of
Sanga cattle
Sanga cattle is the collective name for indigenous cattle of sub-Saharan Africa. They are sometimes identified as a subspecies with the scientific name ''Bos taurus africanus''. Their history of domestication and their origins in relation to ta ...
origin. Characterized by high lyre shaped horns, they have either thoracic humps like the Zebu or humps intermediate with the cervico-thoracic humps of the Sanga.
The White Fulani and
Red Fulani breeds are quite separate, both in origin and in locations where they are kept.
References
Cattle breeds
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