#aurochs — Public Fediverse posts
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"Why are there no wild cows?"
Narrator refers to the torah as the hebrew bible.
The aurochs was the domesticated ancestor of modern cattle. They first appeared 700,000 years ago and became extinct about 1627
https://mastodon.social/@audubonballroon/117270830184652981
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That (both drawings based on reliefs from #GöbekliTepe, Turkey) is an almost standard #aurochs #depiction: bodies in side view, but heads shown in a somehow distorted perspective - lowered, presenting horns. Just like you'd experience an apparently attacking animal in the wild.