Zebu!

Our math lesson yesterday mentioned a "zebu." What in the world is a zebu? So we looked it up: "A domesticated ox with a dewlap." Dewlap? Another student looks that word up: "A loose flap skin that hangs around the neck of some animals, similar to the wattle of a bird." Wattle? We were on a chase. I pulled up a picture of a zebu with a dewlap and projected it on the screen when one of my students exclaims, "OH! My grandma has one of them!" That brought it home for him. Oh where math lessons take us...

Later, I was looking back through my Ethiopia album and saw something in the background of one of the pictures. So I zoomed in: cow-like, prominent hump, native to Eastern Africa. I walked right by a zebu and didn't even know it!