Animal manure unit

= unit for amount of manure

Bedouins

= nomadic tribes inhabiting the deserts of Arabia and North Africa

Boma

= enclosure for a herd of animals (often with dwellings)

Browse

= graze on shrubs

Crawl

= enclosure for a herd of animals

Cultivated pasture

= land that has been tilled or prepared for grazing

Dipping

= bathing of animals in water containing insecticides, especially against ticks ("dips" = bath)

Feedlot

= pen for fattening animals

FAO

= Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations

ICARDA

= International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

ICLARM

= International Centre for Living Aquatic Resources Management

ILCA

= International Livestock Centre for Africa (Addis Ababa)

ILRAD

= International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases (Nairobi)

ITC

= International Trypanotolerance Centre (Gambia)

Livestock

= domestic animals

Masai

= a people living in East Africa, noted as competent livestock keepers

Monogastrics

= animals having one stomach

Pastoralism

= rearing of animals on grazing land

Phytate

= organically bound phosphorus (P), hexaphosphorus-inositol

Protozoan

= uninucleate animal

Ranch

= large farm for rearing grazers

Range

= area in which plants or animals grow or live

Ruminant

= animal that chews the cud

Savanna

= flat grassy plain (pampas in South America)

Spraying

= sprinkling of livestock with insecticides (especially against ticks)

Stall feeding

= keeping and feeding animals in a stall

Steppe

= flat grassy plain

Tick

= mite that attaches itself to the skin of animals

Tsetse fly

= fly transmitting the pathogens of sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis)

Turkana

= a people living by Lake Turkana in Kenya

Zebu

= Indian type of cattle (Bos indicus)

Zero grazing

= indoors feeding/the animals are fed with cut grass