Does this word" scalper"means one kind of cattle to you?
In my hometown, we have two kinds of cattle. one is water buffalo,I am very sure because they like stay in the water in summer. they are grey and very big with two curved horns on their head.But the other one I don't know if this word scalper can name it.It is slight smaller than the water buffalo,and only two little tiny horns. Its body is kind of brown or earth yellow that is why we call it 黄牛which means yellow cattle. They don't like stay in water at all even though they can swim when they in emergency. They can climb up the high hills while the water buffalo can not.
So if I say this is a scalper, will you know what I mean? or do you have any other names for this animal?
Thank you for correcting in advance.
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Does this word "scalper" means one a kind of cattle to you?
In my hometown, we have two kinds of cattle. one is the water buffalo, I am very sure that because they like to stay in the water in summer. they are grey and very big with two curved horns on their head. But the other one, I don't know if this the word scalper can would name it. It is slight smaller than the water buffalo, and only has two little tiny horns. Its body is kind of brown or earth yellow, that is why we call it 黄牛which means yellow cattle. They don't like to stay in water at all even though they can swim when they in an emergency. They can climb up the high hills while the water buffalo can not.
So if I say this is a scalper, will you know what I mean? or do you have any other names for this animal?
Thank you for correcting in advance.
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Hi, Mona. You have many kinds of cattle. I will meet Chinese friends tommorow. Your story would be very interesting topic! Thank you.
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Hi,Sohn. I think this is an interesting subject to talk about because of our different country culture. I understand what a cow means clearly right now.In our country,we have five kinds of cattle （牛），黄牛（the one shows in the picture ),水牛（which means buffalo ）, 牦牛(its body covered with very long hair and lives in very high and cold place. it means yak in dictionary,but i am not sure.) 野牛（means the wild cattle which lives in wild forest）,奶牛（the one produces milk for people, and 奶牛contains male and female too). When talking about male or female, we simply add 公（male），母(female) in front of the animal.公奶牛，母奶牛，公牛，母牛 for example. So we can also say 公猪（male pig）,母猪（female pig) and no matter which animal, when we want to say male or female, just add male or female before the animal.
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Mona. I agree with you that it is better to call the animal in the picture 'ox' than 'cow'. But I think 'cow' is the general term for 'ox' and 'cow'. Is it wrong?
In Korea, there are several words: “소”(SAW-means cattle), “黃소”(HWANG-SAW-means ox) and “암소”(ARM-SAW-means cow). Svieta said there is only one word in Vietnam.(http://www.italki.com/question/171514) But there is no word “黃牛党” in Korea or Japan.
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Mona, You are right. Cow is the female and bull is the male. In England most of the cattle are like the scalper, so we don't use that name. We just say cattle. Though here they do come in a number of different colours, brown, black, black and white and so on
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