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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Sunday, 31 March 2024

Awesome photos of awesome Tauros cattle

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I am always excited when I see new photos of Tauros cattle, because I have not yet had the opportunity to visit any of the herds of the pro...
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Thursday, 7 March 2024

Two of my aurochs sculptures are for sale

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I have to create more space in my sculpture room because I keep on having new ideas, therefore some of my aurochs sculptures are available ...
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Thursday, 22 February 2024

What the aurochs really looked like (new reconstruction)

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L ast week, I finished my latest aurochs model. Just like the previous one, its postcranial morphology is based on the Store-damme skeleton,...
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Friday, 19 January 2024

Magnificent young Auerrind bulls

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R ecently, Felix Hohmeyer posted photos of young bulls from the Auerrind herd near Bielefeld on Facebook:  © Felix Hohmeyer © Felix Hohmeyer...
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Friday, 29 December 2023

I am writing a book on "breeding-back"

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During the last 3 years, I have been writing a book on “breeding-back” and everything related to it. Basically compiling all the knowledge a...
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Friday, 15 December 2023

Why I think purity makes no sense in "breeding-back"

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R eaders of my blog will know that I am not afraid of proposing mixing “breeding-back” cattle with less-derived zebu breeds and even differe...
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Friday, 1 December 2023

European and Indian aurochs may have vocalized differently

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R ecently I learned on a Facebook group that taurine and indicine cattle vocalize differently. Previously, I had assumed that all cattle voc...
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Saturday, 25 November 2023

Trunk length of the aurochs and the mysterious Cambridge specimen

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I n Cis van Vuure’s classical  Retracing the aurochs  it is written that the shoulder height of the aurochs nearly equaled the trunk length,...
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Wednesday, 8 November 2023

New photos of the Watussi-influenced Auerrind cattle

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  H ere are some new photos of Watussi-influenced Auerrind cattle:  © Yannick Weinand These photos show the Watussi x Chianina cow. It is in...
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Tuesday, 10 October 2023

Fascinating news: Mongolian and Iberian aurochs influenced cattle; another dwarf aurochs described

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T he last few months saw the publication of three very interesting papers on the aurochs. One analyzed ancient genomes of Mongolian aurochs ...
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