Tuesday, 28 February 2023

Is outbreeding the wisent necessary?

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I did a couple of posts where I suggested cautious outbreeding for the wisent using its closest living relative, the American bison, in ord...
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Sunday, 26 February 2023

Portrait of a generic aurochs cow

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F or today, I have a quick little sketch of an aurochs cow that I painted with GIMP. It is not a reconstruction of a particular specimen, bu...
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Thursday, 2 February 2023

What a "breeding-back" zebu could look like

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A ll current “breeding-back” projects focus on the European subspecies, but that one is not the only that left living, domesticated descenda...
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Thursday, 26 January 2023

Is the domestication syndrome a myth?

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I n most if not all of my posts on domestication and dedomestication I mentioned the concept of the domestication syndrome that says that do...
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Thursday, 19 January 2023

Extinct megafauna that could be revived using genome editing

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H umans wiped out countless species of animals. Some of those species, particularly those that died out comparably recently, might actually ...
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Sunday, 15 January 2023

The colour of Indian aurochs cows

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W e know nothing about the colour of the Indian aurochs with certainty, except for the fact that it must have had the  E +  allele on the  E...
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Monday, 9 January 2023

Are domestic cattle truly smaller than the aurochs?

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T he question in the headline of this post will immediately be answered with “yes, obviously” by most people, which is understandable as the...
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Tuesday, 3 January 2023

The dingo: a post-domestic wild animal?

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L ong-term readers of my blog will be familiar with my dedomestication hypothesis that I proposed in the dedomestication series . The term d...
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Friday, 30 December 2022

How aggressive was the aurochs?

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A s my readers will know, many of my blog posts on the aurochs focus on aspects of its morphology or appearance, because that is what we kno...
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Wednesday, 28 December 2022

Reconstruction of a complete Indian aurochs skull

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T he Indian aurochs,  Bos primigenius namadicus , is enigmatic compared to the European subspecies. Not a single complete skeleton has been ...
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Wednesday, 21 December 2022

Video of fully grown Lidia bulls

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M ost Lidia bulls we see are young bulls at the age of three or four, because that is when they have their full body size but are comparably...
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Thursday, 15 December 2022

A plea for more Maronesa in "breeding-back"

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M aronesa is an awesome breed that I always enjoy looking at. Like all aurochs-like breeds, they have their pros and con’s. To sum them up: ...
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