Some of the country’s wealthier families will pay for a Ladoum a gargantuan hybrid of the Mauritanian Touabire and the Malian Bali-bali first bred some 70km outside the capital in the early 1970s.
The price of the ladoum varies according to many criteria such as size, weight, age, shape of its horns, and can range from 3 thousand dollars to 70 thousand dollars. It is considered a mark of prestige in West Africa.