The Breeding-back Blog

"Breeding-back" aims to restore or immitate extinct animals by selective breeding. This blog provides general information, the facts behind myths and news from various projects.

Friday, 13 July 2018

Transforming Leo into an aurochs

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S ome weeks ago, Claus Kropp published a photo of the young Sayaguesa bull Leo on facebook: Sayaguesa bull Leo © Claus Kropp Leo is fr...
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Thursday, 12 July 2018

Auerrind cattle are taking shape

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C laus Kropp from the Auerrind project just published some new current photos of the first-generation Auerrind crosses at Kloster Lorsch, Ge...
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Wednesday, 11 July 2018

B.p. namadicus: bone material + new artworks

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I already did a couple of posts on the Indian aurochs, Bos primigenius namadicus , the most comprehensive and up-to-date being this one ...
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Thursday, 21 June 2018

New photo of some Tauros bulls

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G eer vanne Smeed published a new photo of four Tauros bulls at Kempen~Broek on columbusmagazine.nl .  Tauros bulls in Kempen~Broek © Gee...
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Wednesday, 20 June 2018

Auerrind update

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I t has been long ago that I published my last post, and a lot happened. Especially the Auerrind project had some important achievements in ...
Tuesday, 27 March 2018

New photos of Tauros cattle from 2017 and 2018

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A s the primary webpresence of the Tauros Programme is not very comprehensive considering their multiple herds and crossbreeding results, on...
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Friday, 23 March 2018

Two more calves for the Auerrindprojekt

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T wo more calves for the Auerrind project have been born . They were born by two Chianina cows (one of them is La Nova with a withers height...
Friday, 23 February 2018

A feral ancestry for the Przewalski's horse

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EDIT: A recent study by Taylor et al. 2021 calls these results seriously into question. The Botai horses apparently were not domestic. There...
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Monday, 19 February 2018

Biological basics pt. III: Subspecies

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I n Biological basics III: The species concept – a complicated issue , I gave a little overview over how a species is usually defined and w...
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Daniel Foidl
My major interests always have been extinct animals, from dinosaurs to Pleistocene megafauna and more recent extinctions. Besides that I am interested in evolution, genetics and ecology. I am also an amateur animal artist, making drawings and models mostly of extinct animals.
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