Thursday, 22 February 2024

What the aurochs really looked like (new reconstruction)

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L ast week, I finished my latest aurochs model. Just like the previous one, its postcranial morphology is based on the Store-damme skeleton,...
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Friday, 19 January 2024

Magnificent young Auerrind bulls

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R ecently, Felix Hohmeyer posted photos of young bulls from the Auerrind herd near Bielefeld on Facebook:  © Felix Hohmeyer © Felix Hohmeyer...
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Friday, 29 December 2023

I am writing a book on "breeding-back"

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During the last 3 years, I have been writing a book on “breeding-back” and everything related to it. Basically compiling all the knowledge a...
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Friday, 15 December 2023

Why I think purity makes no sense in "breeding-back"

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R eaders of my blog will know that I am not afraid of proposing mixing “breeding-back” cattle with less-derived zebu breeds and even differe...
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Friday, 1 December 2023

European and Indian aurochs may have vocalized differently

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R ecently I learned on a Facebook group that taurine and indicine cattle vocalize differently. Previously, I had assumed that all cattle voc...
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Saturday, 25 November 2023

Trunk length of the aurochs and the mysterious Cambridge specimen

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I n Cis van Vuure’s classical  Retracing the aurochs  it is written that the shoulder height of the aurochs nearly equaled the trunk length,...
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Wednesday, 8 November 2023

New photos of the Watussi-influenced Auerrind cattle

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  H ere are some new photos of Watussi-influenced Auerrind cattle:  © Yannick Weinand These photos show the Watussi x Chianina cow. It is in...
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Tuesday, 10 October 2023

Fascinating news: Mongolian and Iberian aurochs influenced cattle; another dwarf aurochs described

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T he last few months saw the publication of three very interesting papers on the aurochs. One analyzed ancient genomes of Mongolian aurochs ...
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Monday, 25 September 2023

How (not) to quantify aurochs-likeness in cattle

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I have been trying to quantify aurochs-likeness in extant cattle multiple times and it turned out to be very difficult. It starts with the ...
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Friday, 1 September 2023

How bulky was the aurochs?

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A s mostly only bones are preserved of the aurochs, reconstructing the soft tissue surrounding them necessarily involves speculation. The an...
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Thursday, 24 August 2023

Turning Darth Vader III into an aurochs

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I have attempted reconstructing the aurochs by photo manipulation using GIMP on photos of aurochs-like cattle multiple times, but this time ...
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Monday, 14 August 2023

Why Equus ferus should not be used for the wild horse

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T he use of the binominal name  Equus ferus  for the wild horse is extremely common, and I used it myself in the past. However, this binomen...
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Friday, 4 August 2023

The lateral horn orientation

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W hen it comes to the horns of aurochs and cattle, I usually differentiate them into three factors to compare them: the actual shape of the ...
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Tuesday, 25 July 2023

Crossbreeding proposal: Chianina-Watussi

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C hianina are famous for their large body size with sometimes long legs, Watussi are for their very large and thick horns. Now we know that ...
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