View allAll Photos Tagged Inheritance
The Castle of Hikone (彦根城;-j ō) it is the most known historical inheritance of Hikone, province of Shiga, in Japan.
The origin of this castle of the period Edo remounts to 1603, when Ii Naokatsu, son of the ancient daimyo Ii Naomasa, ordered his construction, having been ended in 1622. The fortress was raised in 1575, like part of the Castle of Otsu, and was taken to Hikone by the family Ii.
The lands of Naokatsu him were withdrawn during the xogunato Tokugawa, but, when his brother, Naotake, assumed the control of the area of the province of Omi, he can finish the Castle Hikone, gathering stones of the ancient Castle Sawayama.
In the beginning of the period Meiji, in 1868, many castles was demolished, having it of Hikone been safe by an explicit indication of the emperor, who walking along the area so ordered it. Nowadays it is one of the castles, which preserve the initial construction, more ancients of Japan.
Lt. Governor Rutherford visits Todd's Inheritance by Joe Andrucyk at Todds Inheritance Historic St, 9000 North Point Rd, Sparrows Point, MD 21219
Captured at 12 MP using SRWE and downsampled; Cinematic ReShade preset; DAI Cinematic Tools used for free cam and lighting/color tweaks.
The indigenous cattle of Southern Africa are collectively known as Sanga. Ecotypes of Sanga are the Nguni(South Africa), Bapedi(Lesotho), Nkone & Mashona(Zimbabwe), Landim(Mozambique), Tswana(Botswana) and the Sanga of Namibia. The Afrikaner, Bonsmara, Drakensberger and Tuli could also be classified as Sanga or Sanga phenotypes.
The term Sanga is therefore used to describe cattle of Southern Africa. These cattle have a typical cervico-thoracic hump, lyre shaped horns with a cylindrical core. Their body profile indicates to the possible inheritance between the laterally horned animals with the hump on the neck and the shorthorn Brachyceros with no hump and it’s heritage from Europe.
Chromosome studies showed that Sanga cattle has the same submetacentric Y-chromosome as Bos Taurus cattle. This is contrary to the acrocentric Y-chromosome usually find in Bos Indicus cattle. Due to the anatomical, physiological and adaptability of the breed it was lately classified as bos taurus africanus.
The earliest evidence of cattle in Africa exists in north-west Africa, nowadays Niger, some 7000 years ago. The Sanga however appeared to have originated about 1600 BC in the Ethiopia/Somalia region. Whatever the origins of Sanga cattle, they migrated South through Africa with their nomadic owners. The migration was not easy as they had to cross the most cattle-diseased affected areas in the world. It is believed that the Tsetse belt was crossed just west of the Victoria Falls. The Sanga finally entered Southern Africa some 500 years BC.
Description
Size & Mass
Bulls are of medium size weighing 500 - 800 kg. The average shoulder height of Phase C bulls (=15 months) is + 120cm. Cows are smallish and weigh 300 - 480 kg. Their body length is + 130 cm and height at shoulder + 119 cm.
Horns
Horns are crescent-shaped in bulls and characteristically lyre-shaped, thinner and longer in mature females. They are round in cross-section and dark, especially at the tips.
Hump
The hump is situated cervico-thoracially and is muscular in structure. The size and shape of the hump is reasonably well developed in bulls especially after 3 years, but in females is only evidence in individual animals in good condition.
Hide & Hair
The Nguni has a well-pigmented, motile hide of medium thickness and the coat is short, fine and glossy (oily). The coat patterns are legion and warrant a separate descriptive catalogue but black, red, dun, roan, speckled and patched animals are acceptable. Poor and unpigmented animals are discriminated against.
Colours
The majority of Nguni cattle have pigmented hides and dark, if not black, hooves and muzzles. The coat shows a variety of colours which may appear as whole colours, mixed colours or as specific colour patterns.Six whole coat colours under which white (Umhlope), black (Mnyama), Brown (Emfusi), Red (Embomvu), Dun (Mdaka) and Yellow (Mpofu) exist in Nguni cattle, while eight colour patterns occur. The Zulu names appear in brackets. Besides the fact that there are theoretically 48 colour patterns the Zulu and Swazi people describe 77 different colour patterns in order to ease identification and ownership of cattle. These different colours and colour patterns are playing a very important role in the social and cultural life of the African people.
There is no doubt that the variety of colours, and the combination thereof, have something to do with the excellent adaptability of the breed under the high temperature and dry or humid climatic conditions of Southern Africa.The colourful red and white speckled animals are the most popular animals. However, the inheritance of Nguni cattle are somewhat complicated which makes it impossible to select solely for a certain favourable colour. The Nguni hides have very impressive and attractive colour patterns and can therefore be sold as a byproduct to be used for fashion articles.
Characteristics
Adaptability and Hardness
Having survived many years of exposure to climatic and other environmental extremes such as internal and external parasites, suboptimal grazing conditions and primitive management practices the Nguni has developed as a heat tolerant, disease and tick resistant breed.
Fertility
Nguni cattle seems to be the most fertile beef breed in Southern Africa (and most probably in the world). Nguni cows registered at the Namibian Stud Breeders Association obtained an average inter calving period (ICP) of 402 days despite the severe drought conditions experienced during the nineties.
Ease of Calving
Ngunis calve easily. Calves of both sexes are small at birth weighing 26kg on average or 7.5% of the mothers' mass. Calving difficulties are also extremely rare due to conformational features such as the sloping rump in females and the significant maternal restriction on birth mass.