To which family do the cattle and antelope belong ?

Question

To which family do the cattle and antelope belong ?

Answer 1

Bovidae, a family within the order Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates), which also includes sheep, goats, buffalo, bison and so on.

Answer 2

Got to love Wikipedia  ;-p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovidae

A bovid is any of almost 140 species of cloven-hoofed mammals belonging to the family Bovidae. The family is widespread, being native to all continents except South America, Australia and Antarctica, and diverse: members include buffalo, bison, antelopes, gazelles, both wild and domesticated cattle, sheep, goats, and water buffalo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antelope

There are at least two classification systems at the subfamily level of the Bovidae. In the "lumped" system (of, e.g., Kingdon 1997), antelope occur in both subfamilies—the Bovinae (alongside the cattle) and the Antilopinae (alongside the sheep and goats).

Antelope are not a monophyletic group, but a miscellaneous category for members of the family Bovidae that are not cattle, sheep, goats, or bison. Confusingly, Pronghorn (commonly known as Pronghorn Antelope) are not antelope, but belong to their own family, Antilocapridae.

Answer 3

They are both ungulates, but that is not a family. It used to be an order (a broader category than family), but has now been divided into two orders. I think both cattle and antelopes are artiodactyls.