A few months ago, I was playing golf with some buddies and one of them, Lewis, told me a story:
He was talking to his girlfriend on the phone and said something about a cow and a buffalo in the same pen on the side of the road.
She said, "They're probably trying to make a beefalo."
He called bullshit, as did I when he told me the story. She knew what she was talking about. Well, for all non-OSU grads out there, it's true. It's a beefalo.
Beefalo are the fertile offspring of domestic cattle and American bison. Crosses also exist between domestic cattle and European bison (zubrons) and yaks (yakows). The name given to beefalo might be the most suggestive, since the breed was purposely created to combine the best characteristics of both animals with an eye towards beef production.
A USDA study showed that beefalo meat, like bison meat, tends to be lower in fat and cholesterol. They are also thought to produce less damage to range-land than cattle.
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