Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Founding breeds of Heck cattle, once again

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… but this time as a picture. I picked photos of all the (known) founding breeds of Heck cattle, and composed them on a single table. They a...
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Examining a Pleistocene Wild horse's body conformation

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T he Pleistocene Wild horse skeleton from Denmark displayed at Kopenhagen is perhaps the only complete specimen of Equus ferus from that e...
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Sunday, 12 January 2014

A second gene pool for the British primitive horse

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UPDATE: I fear that the concept of a "British primitive horse" is outdated and not well-supported by evidence. See here .  T he...
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Saturday, 11 January 2014

Exmoor, Przewalski and Konik skulls

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I was wondering how similar the skulls of these three horses are on an osteometric basis. I got an Exmoor skull scanned from Sue Baker'...
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Friday, 10 January 2014

Complete Genome of an Aurochs sequenced! Finally!

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A paper presenting the fully-resolved nuclear genome of an aurochs individual from Britain is finally about to get published. They used an ...
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Thursday, 9 January 2014

Watussi cattle - an underrated breed

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W atussi cattle is a hybrid of taurine and zebuine cattle and are known mostly for their huge horns. It is a variable breed, especially conc...
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Tuesday, 7 January 2014

Sorraia skulls - robust or gracile?

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In my previous post on the Sorraia, I claimed that these horses are slim-jawed. To either verify or justify this statement, I did a life re...