Traditional Cattle Management Systems and Indigenous Veterinary Medicine of Sri Lanka
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S ri Lanka having an a g r i c u l t u r e b a s e d civilisation with an agricultural history of over 13,000 years, the archaeological evidence to confirm the ex is tence of a nomadic era is very scanty or nil. There are still doubts about the indigenous cattle in Sri Lanka, as to whether they are truly indigenous or have been introduced during sometime in the history from our neighbouring countr ies . However, the so called "Local cattle" or "indigenous breeds which are locally known as "Batu harak* was found to be a sub species of the Indian cattle (Bos taurus). But they are phenotypically different to the true Indian cattle. Therefore, our archaeologists categorised them as a sub species of Indian cattle and named them a s Bos indicus sinheleyus (Deraniyagala, 1992). A descriptive a c c o u n t on the phenotypic characteristics of true indigenous cattle has been given by J . Dela H. Merret in 1973. The true indigenous cattle had been extinct in the late 1930 's according to l i terature , due to excessive slaughter for beef during the World War II. The present so called "indigenous" for the "Batu harak" are not typical true to type phenotypes, but they are the cross between the true indigenous and Indian cattle. Therefore, there is no harm if we call these breeds as "local cattle" instead "indigenous" (here after they will be called as local cattle in this text) [Perera, 2005) .
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