Doing the Watusi is a photograph by Carol Lynn Coronios which was uploaded on March 30th, 2014.
Doing the Watusi
These three Watusi cattle were peacefully munching hay at Safari West, outside Santa Rosa in the Sonoma Valley of California. ... more
Title
Doing the Watusi
Artist
Carol Lynn Coronios
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
These three Watusi cattle were peacefully munching hay at Safari West, outside Santa Rosa in the Sonoma Valley of California.
Guests ride in a modified armored truck to view African wildlife. Overnight guests 'camp out' in luxurious safari tents scattered across a hillside.
Safari West's goal is to actively promote conservation and environmental education concepts to our guests; they are fully accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
The following information is excerpts from Oklahoma State University Animal Science website.
Ankole-Watusi cattle can easily trace their ancestry back more than 6,000 years and have often been referred to as "cattle of kings." Traditionally, Ankole-Watusi were considered sacred. They supplied milk to the owners, but were only rarely used for meat production, since an owner's wealth was counted in live animals.
Long-horned, humpless domestic cattle were well established in the Nile Valley by 4000 B.C., appearing in pictographs in Egyptian pyramids. Over the next twenty centuries (2.000 years), the Egyptian Longhorn migrated with its owners from the Nile to Ethiopia, and then down to the southern reaches of Africa.
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March 30th, 2014
Comments (38)
Carol Lynn Coronios
Thank you, all, for your compliments! Linda, my personality/sense of humor runs along those lines, too, but I decided to play on the old song/dance.
Linda Covino
this makes me laugh because of my personality I'm thinking of a capture to go above this like: hey that's my hay, or I was first get your own lol..great capture
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