Monday, 25 March 2019

First Chianina x Watussi is born

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T oday, the Auerrind project announced that the first Chianina x Watussi calf was born this week. It's a cow calf. I am very happy to...
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Thursday, 21 March 2019

Aurochs model: Work in progress

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H ere are a few work in progress photos of my new aurochs bull model from air-drying modelling clay that I started in December 2018: ...
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Video of very aurochs-like Lidia bulls

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I recently found this video of a couple of Lidia bulls that I find to have a rather impressive morphology on youtube:  The body shape of...
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Monday, 4 February 2019

New aurochs model upcoming

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In 2015, I did models of an aurochs bull and cow in scale 1:10 made from polymer clay. You can see them on this post, they are displayed at...
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Sunday, 20 January 2019

The last aurochs hybridized with cattle in the wild

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D omestic animals and their wild counterparts are usually able to interbreed freely and produce fertile hybrids. Thus, it is always likely ...
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Monday, 14 January 2019

Albatros, the Heck bull, vs. aurochs

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W hen looking through Walter Frisch’s  Der Auerochs  (2010) I found a photo of the Heck bull Albatros in perfect profile view (the photo is...
Friday, 11 January 2019

From aurochs to cattle: step by step

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I n the post The real differences between aurochs and cattle I go over the organismic differences between the aurochs and cattle in regard...
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Sunday, 30 December 2018

What to do with the wisent in the Caucasus?

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For an update of my take on to this subject, go here .  T he Caucasus mountains were home to another subspecies of wisent,  Bison  bonasus ...
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Sunday, 23 December 2018

The Origin of Maronesa

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B ack in a 2013 post , I called Maronesa a “relict breed” from Portugal. Not because of an alleged isolated ancient origin, but for its fla...
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Thursday, 20 December 2018

What can "breeding-back" achieve?

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T he previous three posts ( here , here , here , here  and here ) have explored the borders of “breeding-back”. I give a quick summary. The...
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