Saturday, 12 April 2025

Was the European aurochs woolly and shaggy like Highland cattle?

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T hinking about the coat of the European aurochs, there is a notion from Conrad Gesner, who owned a piece of an aurochs s...
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Thursday, 27 February 2025

How to rescue Bos taurus taxonomically

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I once did a post on why I use Bos primigenius for the species of aurochs and cattle although it is predated by Bos taur...
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Thursday, 16 January 2025

The weird proto-aurochs from the Pleistocene of India

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I actually wanted to include this in my upcoming book – which will be published soon – but it turned out to be too specul...
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Thursday, 5 December 2024

Why the aurochs is the ideal de-extinction candidate

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C urrently, the main focus of de-extinction initiatives is on the woolly mammoth, the thylacine and the passenger pigeon. The aurochs is rar...
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Thursday, 7 November 2024

How to improve the bodily morphology of "breeding-back" cattle?

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I think that all of the current “breeding-back” projects and breeds are progressing very nicely. It is always exciting f...
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Wednesday, 23 October 2024

New photos of Dominator from this summer

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S orry for my long absence on this blog during the last couple of months. It has been because I am very busy with finishing the last illustr...
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Sunday, 28 July 2024

Auerrind project update

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Claus Kropp from the Auerrind project posted an update to the project today, with lots of beautiful photos of their very promising and beau...
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Saturday, 29 June 2024

Is Sayaguesa the ultimate "breeding-back" breed?

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S ayaguesa is used in all three major “breeding-back” projects (Taurus cattle, Tauros cattle and Auerrind cattle) and the...
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Thursday, 27 June 2024

What is your favourite "breeding-back" project/breed/lineage/herd?

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I have several posts in preparation at the moment, but for today, I want to ask my readers a question. Which one is your favourite "br...
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Sunday, 16 June 2024

I have a Facebook page now

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I did not post much here recently (mostly because I am busy finishing my book on "breeding-back"), but I have a lot of posts in p...
Saturday, 15 June 2024

Let's appreciate Heck cattle for a moment

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H eck cattle usually receives a lot of negative PR, so I felt motivated to write a blog post on what is positive about th...
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Sunday, 21 April 2024

Event at the Neanderthal museum, Germany, with Darren Naish and me

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I was invited by Tobias Möser from the Sequoia Verlag in Germany to hold a presentation on the "breeding-back" of the aurochs at...
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Saturday, 13 April 2024

I own an aurochs horn now: what it tells us

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Recently I purchased an aurochs horn from most likely or at least the 15 th  century. It is not only the only one in private hands known, bu...
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