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Banteng

Banteng \Ban"teng\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The wild ox of Java ( Bibos Banteng).

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banteng

n. A wild ox, (taxlink Bos javanicus species noshow=1), found in Borneo, Malaysia and the Indochina peninsula.

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banteng

n. wild ox of the Malay Archipelago [syn: banting, tsine, Bos banteng]

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Banteng

The banteng (Bos javanicus), also known as tembadau, is a species of wild cattle found in Southeast Asia.

Banteng have been domesticated in several places in Southeast Asia, and there are around 1.5 million domestic banteng, which are called Bali cattle. These animals are used as working animals and for their meat. Banteng have also been introduced to Northern Australia, where they have established stable feral populations.

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Wild ancestor: the banteng (a relative of the aurochs) of Southeast Asia.

Why Eurasia’s five species of wild cattle (aurochs, water buffalo, yak, gaur, banteng), but not the African buffalo or American bison?

Why Eurasia's five species of wild cattle (aurochs, water buffalo, yak, gaur, banteng), but not the African buffalo or American bison?

From his exposure to Tjimande, which it is he studied, and with his training in Banteng, Sera eloped his own system, tailored to his physical hand>s.

For a while they talked about the animals' wild relations, the banteng and the gaur, either of which might have breathed upon Stephen by night at Kumai - creatures of enormous size - and then Stephen said, 'My colleague is importunate to know what happened last night.