Niata cattle

Niata
	Photograph of a Niata cow, c. 1890
Conservation status	extinct[1]
Country of origin	Uruguay, Argentina
	Cattle;

The Niata or Ñata is an extinct breed of dwarf cattle from Uruguay and Argentina.[1]^: xxvi It was observed by Charles Darwin in the 1830s.[2]^: 273[3]^: 146[4]^: 332[5]^: 51 George Ernest Gibson bought two in 1889, one of which was exhibited at the Segunda Exposición Internacional de Ganadería y Agricultura in Buenos Aires in April 1890.[2]^: 277 By the early twentieth century it was nearly or completely extinct.[2]^: 277

Two Niata skeletons in the Museo de La Plata, in La Plata, Argentina

History

References

Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016). Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding (sixth edition). Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 9781780647944.
Ernest Gibson (1915). Some Notes on the Niata Breed of Cattle (Bos taurus). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 85: 273–277. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1915.tb07417.x.
Charles Darwin (1845). Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N., second edition. London: John Murray.
Charles Darwin (1868). The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, volume II. London: John Murray.
Barbara G. Beddall (1975). "Un Naturalista Original": Don Félix de Azara, 1746-1821. Journal of the History of Biology 8 (1): 15–66. (subscription required).

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[cabi-1] Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016). Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding (sixth edition). Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 9781780647944.

[ern-2] Ernest Gibson (1915). Some Notes on the Niata Breed of Cattle (Bos taurus). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 85: 273–277. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1915.tb07417.x.

[cd-3] Charles Darwin (1845). Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N., second edition. London: John Murray.

[cd2-4] Charles Darwin (1868). The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, volume II. London: John Murray.

[jhb-5] Barbara G. Beddall (1975). "Un Naturalista Original": Don Félix de Azara, 1746-1821. Journal of the History of Biology 8 (1): 15–66. (subscription required).