Recently I finished another aurochs drawing. I was inspired by the photo of a Pinzgauer bull for the pose. I did it with a ballpoint pen and coloured it in GIMP.
The head and horns are based on the Berlin skull. The colour of the dorsal stripe is grey, as the historic text by Sigismund von Herberstein suggests.
Wow. You have an amazing blog and I wanted to thank you for all the time and work you put into here. It's such a joy seeing someone with that level of dedication on an (interesting) topic. Today I (for whatever reason) took a deep dive into the whole aurochs de-exctinction rabbit whole. Like you, I've been fascinated with prehistoric wildlife from an early age. Dinosaurs and megafauna from what was back then known as Tertiary and Quaternary. My interest in sadly extinct species and the idea of de-extinction has mainly been focussed on recent dinosaurs: birds (Dodo, Riesenalk/great auk etc.) Yet I remember reading from the TaurOs project years ago. So today I was surprised, that there were/are several similar programmes going on at the same time. The English language wikipedia mainly speaks of the "Uruz Project", which I otherwise couldn't find much info about. It appears to have partially evolved into the Auerrindprojekt? Sadly the webpages of all three established projects lack in appeal (and up-to-dateness). Thus making your blog the best way to catch up on collected news. If I might dare to ask, can you give an opinion on which one you take as the most promising breeding back programme right now? Anyway, keep up the great work. It is appreciated. Your drawn ochs looks awesome. 😄
ReplyDeleteThe Uruz project indeed evolved partially into the Auerrind project, now it exists only on Wikipedia. Regarding your question, I think that Taurus cattle in the Lippeaue represent the top level of "breeding-back" at the moment. The Auerrrind project is also promising. The results of the TaurOs project all were mediocre so far.
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