A team of Japanese researchers recruited six cows and gave them each black-and-white stripes, black stripes and no stripes. They took photos of the cow’s painted right side, counting the number ...

The now extinct Fife or Fifeshire was also a large, black, dual-purpose breed that had an excellent reputation as a milker. Beginning about 1770, brown or brown-and-white Dutch cattle were ...

Holsteins are the classic daily cows, easily recognizable by their white and black spots. They are the most popular breed for milk in the U.S., known for producing high-quality milk, that is used ...

Triplets are exponentially more rare, but not unheard of in breeds like the holstein-friesian (the classic black-and-white dairy cow). Where cows differ substantially from humans is that in ...