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Red Bororo
(transboundary/brand name)

(most common name):
Bororo (Niger)
M’Bororo (Chad)
Mbororo à robe rouge (Cameroon)
Red Bororo (Nigeria/Sudan)
(local/other name):
• Bororo (Chad)
• Bororodji (plural)
• Brahaza (Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria)
• Djafoun (Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria)
• Fellata (Cameroon/Chad/Ethiopia/Niger/Nigeria)
• Fogha
• Foulata (Chad)
• Gabassae / Gabassaé (Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria)
• Gadehe / Gadéhé (Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria)
• Hanagamba (Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria)
• Kreda / Kréda (Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria)
• Mbororo (Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria)
• Ogha (Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria)
• Rahaza (Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria)
• Wodabe
• Zebu Peuhl Rouge (Chad)
• Zébu Peul Bororo (Mali)
local/other name (English):
• Red Fulani (Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria)
• Red Longhorn
local/other name (Wodaabe):
• Bodadi
• Fulani Bodadi
local/other name (Hausa):
• Abori
• Rahadji (Chad/Niger/Nigeria)
• Rahaji

The Red Bororo can be found in:
• Benin (northern)
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon (northern)
• Central African Republic
• Chad (central west and southwest)
• Ethiopia (Gambela Province)
• Mali (southeastern)
• Niger (eastern and central)
• Nigeria (northern arid and semi-arid regions)
• Sudan (western)

Descriptions of the Red Bororo include:
• tall
• long-legged
• long lyre-shaped white horns (often 75 cm and sometimes 120 cm long)
• uniform mahogany red or dark red coat (usually)
• pied coat (sometimes, due to some White Fulani blood)
• white coat (sometimes)
• black coat (sometimes)

They are largely owned by the Fulani and allied ethnicities, primarily the Kanouri, M’bororo and Wodaabe. Their care follows a strategy of transhumance (moving from one grazing ground to another in a seasonal cycle).

Although esteemed for their beauty by the Fulani, they are reported to be fussy eaters. They are said to prehend forage (using the incisor arcade to grasp the forage rather than by twining and pulling with the tongue). Because of this, a slender head and small muzzle is preferred.

Red Bororo cattle, which are are classified as zebus, may trace back to the primitive Sahara Zebu and must have been influenced by the Indo-Pakistani Zebu. They are also said to be hard to steal because they are intelligent and only easily handled by their own herders. They are not driven; they follow their herders.

Unfortunately, the Red Bororo is susceptible to diseases found in humid environments, including trypanosomosis. A genetic closeness has been found to the Sokoto Gudali, White Fulani, Shuwa and Adamawa.

(French) Peul (also Peuhl) = Fulani

This page was last updated on: 2024-10-16


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