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.
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?
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on a very informative website.
interesting articles Daniel!
ReplyDeleteI 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
https://www.cabannina.it/
Delete"similar" doesn't evidently means that they are aurochs ;) ...they are small and with very slender legs...
ReplyDeleteBreeds of cattle and horses from Portugal, Spain, Italy and France:
ReplyDeletePortuguese 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
Bird missing for 172 years rediscovered in the forests of Borneo:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.wilder.pt/historias/ave-desaparecida-durante-172-anos-redescoberta-nas-florestas-do-borneu/