Thursday, 30 June 2022

Video of a Steinberg/Wörth bull and Tauros cattle

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T he video above shows the bull Azrael, which is currently the breeding bull at the Neandertal Heck cattle herd. The Neandertal herd was imp...
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Tuesday, 21 June 2022

My trip to the Lippeaue in 2022 (Taurus cattle)

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Last week I visited the Lippeaue reserve again, which is the main Taurus cattle breeding site in Germany. As usual, it was a very enjoyable ...
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Wednesday, 1 June 2022

New Auerrind breeding herds assembled

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T he Auerrind project assembled new breeding herds in Lorsch, Wildpark Schwarzach and Bielefeld and published photos on Facebook:  © Lauresh...
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Tuesday, 31 May 2022

Two zebus with traits of the Indian aurochs

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A t first glance, zebus seem to be rather different from the aurochs. But there are certain traits found in many zebus that are very reminis...
Monday, 23 May 2022

Bos primigenius trochoceros?

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T he species of the aurochs,  Bos   primigenius , has many synonyms – last time I counted it was 8, counting only those that are based on wi...
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Thursday, 19 May 2022

Genome editing for "breeding-back" the aurochs

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T raditional “breeding-back” takes a long time until satisfying results are achieved, also because cattle are a comparably slow-reproducing ...
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Wednesday, 11 May 2022

The Vig bull and its horns

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T he Vig bull is one of the two almost complete aurochs skeletons from Zealand, Denmark. It's from the early Holocene and shows several ...
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Friday, 29 April 2022

Video of a great Lidia bull

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R epeatedly I wrote on my blog that I consider the Spanish fighting bull (Lidia) the most aurochs-like or least-derived taurine cattle breed...
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Monday, 11 April 2022

Bos primigenius or Bos taurus?

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T here is some confusion about which name is the proper scientific name for the aurochs, Bos primigenius or Bos taurus . In this post, I ...
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Wednesday, 16 March 2022

The horns of the African aurochs and its evolutionary implications

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I did a post on the African aurochs,  Bos primigenius mauretanicus , a few years ago. The African aurochs is said to be morphologically ve...
Friday, 4 March 2022

Differences between the Quagga Project zebras and the quagga

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T he Quagga Project likes to call their zebras “Rau quagga”, after the founder of the project Reinhold Rau. That is why I made the post Plea...
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