๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the cow live?

Bos taurus has 440,631 records in 168 countries and territories, from 1575 to 2026. Most records come from Chile.

cow
cow โ€” Kim Hansen / CC BY-SA 3.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataMammaliaArtiodactylaBovidaeBos

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Chile 196,857
Colombia 151,005
Australia 36,775
Netherlands 32,635
Portugal 5,704
France 3,142
Kenya 2,574
New Zealand 2,364
Germany 2,087
United States 1,047
India 695
Canada 625
Belgium 560
Spain 502
Mexico 442
Russia 392
Sweden 330
Denmark 284
Argentina 225
Ecuador 217
Hong Kong 161
United Kingdom 136
South Africa 118
Brazil 104
Luxembourg 95
Italy 93
Madagascar 90
Philippines 83
Egypt 66
Austria 65
Algeria 65
Thailand 53
Switzerland 44
Czechia 41
Romania 40
Greece 36
Poland 34
Sri Lanka 33
Peru 31
China 30

Showing the top 40 of 168 places.

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Others in the family Bovidae.

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119,597 records
Pyrenean Chamoios
51,210 records
suni
suni
44,721 records
African buffalo
18,026 records
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17,052 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.