Friday 16 April 2021

Articles on the aurochs and the European wild horse

About a month ago, I was invited to write some guest articles for the website www.theextinctions.com, a website on recently extinct animals. I wrote an article on the aurochs, and one for the European wild horse (which I do not call "tarpan"). 
Here are the articles: 


With the articles I intended to do a comprehensive summary on what we know about these two animals. Long-term readers of my blog will be familiar with the knowledge presented in the articles. 

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6 comments:

  1. Paul5 May 2021 at 04:35

    If the European wild horse was either bay, bay dun, black or black dun why the obsession with horses showing ‘primitive’ markings on dun as seen in the Konik, Sorraia, Dulmen and preferred colouration of the Hucul? Surely bay and black horses are equally important and the term ‘primitive’ should be updated?
    Congratulations on a very informative website.

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  2. rudy13 May 2021 at 07:32

    interesting articles Daniel!
    I inform you that this study
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982208000651
    has discovered that an ancient and very rare italian breed (cabannina) belong to a unique haplogroup similar to that of the extinct aurochs.
    cabannina cattle stays all the year outside in the italian mountains.
    these are the last breeders of this ancient mountain cattle.
    https://www.cabannina.it/allevatori

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    1. Anonymous19 July 2021 at 02:41

      https://www.cabannina.it/

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  3. rudy13 May 2021 at 07:35

    "similar" doesn't evidently means that they are aurochs ;) ...they are small and with very slender legs...

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  4. Anonymous19 May 2021 at 13:28

    Breeds of cattle and horses from Portugal, Spain, Italy and France:
    Portuguese breeds of cattle:
    https://www.sprega.com.pt/
    https://www.sprega.com.pt/conteudo.php?idesp=bovinos

    Spanish breeds of cattle:
    https://feagas.com/
    https://feagas.com/razas/bovino/

    Italian breeds of cattle:
    https://www.agraria.org/
    https://www.agraria.org/zootecnia.htm
    http://eng.agraria.org/
    http://eng.agraria.org/cattle.htm
    http://esp.agraria.org/
    http://esp.agraria.org/bovinos.htm

    French breeds of cattle:
    https://www.racesdefrance.fr/
    https://www.racesdefrance.fr/bovins
    https://www.racesdefrance.fr/bovins?id=104
    https://www.racesdefrance.fr/bovins/races-allaitantes
    https://www.racesdefrance.fr/bovins/tres-faible-effectif



    Portuguese breeds of horses:
    https://www.sprega.com.pt/
    https://www.sprega.com.pt/conteudo.php?idesp=equinos

    Spanish breeds of horses:
    https://feagas.com/
    https://feagas.com/razas/equino-caballar/

    Italian breeds of horses:
    https://www.agraria.org/
    https://www.agraria.org/equini.htm
    http://eng.agraria.org/
    http://eng.agraria.org/horse.htm
    http://esp.agraria.org/
    http://esp.agraria.org/caballos.htm

    French breeds of horses:
    https://www.racesdefrance.fr/
    https://www.racesdefrance.fr/chevaux
    https://www.racesdefrance.fr/chevaux/races-de-trait

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  5. Anonymous3 September 2021 at 10:49

    Bird missing for 172 years rediscovered in the forests of Borneo:
    https://www.wilder.pt/historias/ave-desaparecida-durante-172-anos-redescoberta-nas-florestas-do-borneu/

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