Sunday, 29 August 2021

A new video of Darth Vader III

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R ecently a new video of Darth Vader III, breeding bull of the Taurus cattle herd at Disselmersch, Lippeaue, has been posted:  The colour is...
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Thursday, 26 August 2021

The past 10 years in "breeding-back"

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I have been researching on the aurochs, wild horse and “breeding-back” for exactly ten years now. It was in 2011, when I worked on a drawing...
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Wednesday, 25 August 2021

Differences between the quagga and other zebras

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I t has been established that the quagga is a subspecies of the plains zebra because it clusters genetically within this clade. This, howeve...
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Saturday, 21 August 2021

A Pleistocene wild horse from Denmark

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A few years ago, I did a life restoration of this wild horse skeleton from Denmark. But it wasn't that good, I found. So I did a new o...
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Monday, 16 August 2021

The skeleton of a Heck bull

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W hen comparing living cattle to the aurochs, there is the danger of comparing apples with bananas when examining skeletons versus living an...
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Saturday, 31 July 2021

The Store Damme aurochs

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T he Store Damme specimen from Denmark is a nearly complete skeleton of a male aurochs. The mount has a withers height of 175 cm [1], what m...
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Sunday, 18 July 2021

New video from the Lippeaue

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T he youtube channel Auerochsen Weidelandschaften just posted a new video of Taurus cattle in the Lippeaue:  I have to say that I really lik...
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Is "breeding-back" necessary?

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O riginally, “breeding-back” as it was invented by the Heck brothers, aimed to recreate extinct species. We now know that this is not possib...
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Saturday, 10 July 2021

That "tarpan" photo

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I am very averse to using the term "tarpan" for the western form of the wild horse, Equus ferus ferus , for a number of reasons. ...
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Friday, 9 July 2021

Using zebus to achieve the trunk to shoulder height ratio?

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I make no secret of the fact that I am not averse to using zebuine or zebuine-influenced cattle for “breeding-back” the European aurochs,  ...
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Thursday, 8 July 2021

Two new videos of Tauros cattle at Milovice

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T he Tauros cattle herd at Milovice, Czech Republic, is so far the only Tauros cattle herd in Central Europe. It is composed of cows, severa...
Monday, 5 July 2021

The Heck/Taurus cattle of the NP Unteres Odertal, Germany

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H eck cattle and Taurus cattle can be considered two different breeds, but it has to be kept in mind that both gene pools are connected and ...
Sunday, 4 July 2021

Botai horses were not domestic, study says

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A ccording to a widely publicised study by Gaunitz et al., the modern Przewalski’s horse descends from the horses associated with the Botai ...
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Wednesday, 30 June 2021

Primitive traits found in the anatomy of the Konik - is there truth behind the myth?

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T he very popular anecdote for the origin of the Konik is that it descends from the last Polish wild horses kept in a game park in the 19 th...
Monday, 28 June 2021

The post-domestic wildtype: Is the Przewalski's horse wild or feral?

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EDIT: A 2021 study found that the Botai horses were not domestic, therefore the Przewalski's horse is still a predomestic, never domesti...
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Wednesday, 23 June 2021

Bulls from Oostvaardersplassen and Slikken van Flakkee

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T he Oostvaardersplassen Heck cattle population has been covered multiple times on this blog. It is an interesting population because the ca...
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