Aleutian wild cattle are feral wild cattle found on the Alaskan

Aleutian islands The Aleutian Islands ( ; ; , "land of the Aleuts"; possibly from the Chukchi language, Chukchi ''aliat'', or "island")—also called the Aleut Islands, Aleutic Islands, or, before Alaska Purchase, 1867, the Catherine Archipelago—are a chain ...

. Several attempts have been made to round up these cattle for ranching. From 1985 to 1986, the cattle on the Shumagin Islands were eliminated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, but they still remain on Umnak Island and Chirikof Island. , there were approximately 2,000 cattle on the island. Their origins are not known; genetic testing shows them to be genetically distinct from common American commercial breeds, though related to Highland cattle.

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