Tuesday, 25 July 2023

Crossbreeding proposal: Chianina-Watussi

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C hianina are famous for their large body size with sometimes long legs, Watussi are for their very large and thick horns. Now we know that ...
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Saturday, 15 July 2023

Would it be crazy to use hybridization in "breeding-back"?

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A s my readers will know, I suggested cautious hybridization with extant wild bovines that would add traits hardly achievable using domestic...
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Friday, 30 June 2023

10 years Breeding-back Blog + the Gramsbergen aurochs

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S ince May this year, I have been running the Breeding-back blog for ten years now. So far, it had more than 1,2 million page views, 500 pos...
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Saturday, 24 June 2023

Post #500: How to speed up "breeding-back"

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S elective breeding with domestic cattle cannot, under any circumstances, revive the aurochs. What can be achieved is what I call the greate...
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Tuesday, 13 June 2023

Did the African aurochs die out because of aridification?

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I t is well-known that the aurochs was wiped out by humans. It was mainly a combination of hunting, competition for habitat and competition ...
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Monday, 5 June 2023

New Auerrind breeding herd has been assembled

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A few days ago, the Freilichtmuseum Lauresham has published a video and announced on facebook that a new herd of the Auerrind project has b...
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Friday, 26 May 2023

Reconstruction model of the Indian aurochs

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A fter I finished my reconstruction of the Sassenberg bull , I now can present another model, this time of the Indian aurochs.  In the lack ...
Saturday, 29 April 2023

Life reconstruction model of the Sassenberg bull

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I t has been two months since my latest post. I didn’t publish any posts in those two months because I was busy doing new aurochs models. I ...
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Tuesday, 28 February 2023

Is outbreeding the wisent necessary?

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I did a couple of posts where I suggested cautious outbreeding for the wisent using its closest living relative, the American bison, in ord...
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Sunday, 26 February 2023

Portrait of a generic aurochs cow

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F or today, I have a quick little sketch of an aurochs cow that I painted with GIMP. It is not a reconstruction of a particular specimen, bu...
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Thursday, 2 February 2023

What a "breeding-back" zebu could look like

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A ll current “breeding-back” projects focus on the European subspecies, but that one is not the only that left living, domesticated descenda...
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Thursday, 26 January 2023

Is the domestication syndrome a myth?

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I n most if not all of my posts on domestication and dedomestication I mentioned the concept of the domestication syndrome that says that do...
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