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Cattle have 29 pairs of chromosomes and have several hundreds of NUMTs.

A search for NUMTs can be made using the NCBI Map viewer Build 3.1


To see the results of my analysis:

Bos taurus NUMTs by tRNA

Bos taurus NUMTs by chromosome

Bos taurus NUMT D-loop


See also:

Liu Y, Zhao X. 
Distribution of nuclear mitochondrial DNA in cattle nuclear genome.
J Anim Breed Genet. 2007 Oct;124(5):264-8. Abstract