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"Bringing back the aurochs
By conjuring the extinct ancestor of modern cattle, breeders are making Europe just a little wilder.
Ronald Goderie glances skeptically at a rickety wooden fence in the Danube delta. After a marathon journey from the Netherlands, some of the most unusual cattle in the world are about to arrive in this lonely corner of eastern Romania. 'Don't underestimate their strength,' the Dutch ecologist warns the son of a local farmer who will help take care of the herd. The dozen brawny creatures must remain quarantined in the pen for 24 days to satisfy veterinarians that they are disease-free. Goderie's worry is that the cattle may leap the fence, or smash through it.
For 7 years, Goderie has been breeding this line of animals with a remarkable vision in mind. The Taurus cattle are his latest creations in a long quest to resurrect the aurochs, the fearsome ancestor of today's cattle. The last of their kind died in the 17th century. But the genes that endowed aurochs with traits such as massive horns and a grand stature persist, diluted and dispersed across dozens of cattle breeds.
Several efforts are underway to collect these genes by cross-breeding heritage cattle, which predate the rise of industrial agriculture. Creating a facsimile of primeval cattle is not the only goal. Goderie and others intend to set the tough, self-sufficient animals free as part of an ambitious long-term aim to 'rewild' millions of hectares of abandoned farmland. They are counting on the heavy-weights' grazing and trampling to prevent forests from encroaching on diverse grasslands. Rewilding Europe, a nonprofit conservation group, has provided about €200,000 over the past few years to help establish herds of cattle that resemble aurochs in Croatia, Portugal, Spain, and now Romania."
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"Bringing back the aurochs
By conjuring the extinct ancestor of modern cattle, breeders are making Europe just a little wilder.
Ronald Goderie glances skeptically at a rickety wooden fence in the Danube delta. After a marathon journey from the Netherlands, some of the most unusual cattle in the world are about to arrive in this lonely corner of eastern Romania. 'Don't underestimate their strength,' the Dutch ecologist warns the son of a local farmer who will help take care of the herd. The dozen brawny creatures must remain quarantined in the pen for 24 days to satisfy veterinarians that they are disease-free. Goderie's worry is that the cattle may leap the fence, or smash through it.
For 7 years, Goderie has been breeding this line of animals with a remarkable vision in mind. The Taurus cattle are his latest creations in a long quest to resurrect the aurochs, the fearsome ancestor of today's cattle. The last of their kind died in the 17th century. But the genes that endowed aurochs with traits such as massive horns and a grand stature persist, diluted and dispersed across dozens of cattle breeds.
Several efforts are underway to collect these genes by cross-breeding heritage cattle, which predate the rise of industrial agriculture. Creating a facsimile of primeval cattle is not the only goal. Goderie and others intend to set the tough, self-sufficient animals free as part of an ambitious long-term aim to 'rewild' millions of hectares of abandoned farmland. They are counting on the heavy-weights' grazing and trampling to prevent forests from encroaching on diverse grasslands. Rewilding Europe, a nonprofit conservation group, has provided about €200,000 over the past few years to help establish herds of cattle that resemble aurochs in Croatia, Portugal, Spain, and now Romania."
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#zoos #Nazis #documenteries #aurochs #HeckCattle
"‘American Zoo’ reveals Nazi-linked animal breeding program at Catskill Game Farm
A new documentary examines the beloved zoo’s dark past. But don’t expect the filmmaker to tell you what to think.
Memories of the Catskill Game Farm tend to carry plenty of nostalgia for locals who visited the family-owned petting zoo during its 73 years in operation. But a new documentary turns a spotlight on a particularly dark corner of the tourist attraction’s history.
'American Zoo' had its U.S. premiere on June 4 at the Tribeca Film Festival. Directed by British filmmaker Tim Travers Hawkins, the film uses footage Travers Hawkins discovered in 2022 during a visit to the former zoo to explore its troubled past — including links to a Nazi-era animal-breeding program aimed at reviving extinct animal species.
'When I was first looking at the film, I absolutely had no idea it was going to lead me to a Nazi breeding program,' Travers Hawkins, a two-time Emmy-nominated filmmaker, said in an interview with the Times Union.
Opened in 1933 by German immigrant Roland Lindemann, the Catskill Game Farm became the nation’s first privately owned zoo in 1958. Over its seven decades of operation, the Game Farm’s menagerie grew to approximately 2,000 animals and 150 species.
In addition to being a major tourist attraction in the Catskills, the Game Farm had breeding programs to supply animals to other zoos — and, apparently, to bring animals back from extinction.Through the found footage and numerous interviews with former gamekeepers and descendants, Travers Hawkins was able to piece together the history of the two main families at the core of the operation: the Lindemanns and the Hecks."
https://www.timesunion.com/movies/article/catskill-game-farm-nazi-documentary-22297408.php
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#zoos #Nazis #documenteries #aurochs #HeckCattle
"‘American Zoo’ reveals Nazi-linked animal breeding program at Catskill Game Farm
A new documentary examines the beloved zoo’s dark past. But don’t expect the filmmaker to tell you what to think.
Memories of the Catskill Game Farm tend to carry plenty of nostalgia for locals who visited the family-owned petting zoo during its 73 years in operation. But a new documentary turns a spotlight on a particularly dark corner of the tourist attraction’s history.
'American Zoo' had its U.S. premiere on June 4 at the Tribeca Film Festival. Directed by British filmmaker Tim Travers Hawkins, the film uses footage Travers Hawkins discovered in 2022 during a visit to the former zoo to explore its troubled past — including links to a Nazi-era animal-breeding program aimed at reviving extinct animal species.
'When I was first looking at the film, I absolutely had no idea it was going to lead me to a Nazi breeding program,' Travers Hawkins, a two-time Emmy-nominated filmmaker, said in an interview with the Times Union.
Opened in 1933 by German immigrant Roland Lindemann, the Catskill Game Farm became the nation’s first privately owned zoo in 1958. Over its seven decades of operation, the Game Farm’s menagerie grew to approximately 2,000 animals and 150 species.
In addition to being a major tourist attraction in the Catskills, the Game Farm had breeding programs to supply animals to other zoos — and, apparently, to bring animals back from extinction.Through the found footage and numerous interviews with former gamekeepers and descendants, Travers Hawkins was able to piece together the history of the two main families at the core of the operation: the Lindemanns and the Hecks."
https://www.timesunion.com/movies/article/catskill-game-farm-nazi-documentary-22297408.php
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Auroch bones are found in large numbers at the Ness of #Brodgar these appear to have been dumped as part of camp celebrations after a successful hunt carried out by boat-people visiting orkney for an annual hunt.
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Auroch bones are found in large numbers at the Ness of #Brodgar these appear to have been dumped as part of camp celebrations after a successful hunt carried out by boat-people visiting orkney for an annual hunt.
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Last year's #aurochs feature is now in the #openArchives. #Free access for all. https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/12/aurochs-dead-and-alive.html #science #evolution #extinction #domestication #cattle #genome #rewilding #megafauna
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Last year's #aurochs feature is now in the #openArchives. #Free access for all. https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/12/aurochs-dead-and-alive.html #science #evolution #extinction #domestication #cattle #genome #rewilding #megafauna
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my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 23: #aurochs are extinct but also the ancestors of today's #cattle. #AncientDNA study reveals their #PopulationHistory https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/12/aurochs-dead-and-alive.html #science #genome #agriculture #rewilding #ecology #evolution
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my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 23: #aurochs are extinct but also the ancestors of today's #cattle. #AncientDNA study reveals their #PopulationHistory https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/12/aurochs-dead-and-alive.html #science #genome #agriculture #rewilding #ecology #evolution
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the #aurochs thing reminded me of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5rqSroOkTg
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the #aurochs thing reminded me of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5rqSroOkTg
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30-Oct-2024
#AncientDNA brings to life history of the iconic #aurochs, whose tale is intertwined with climate change and human culturehttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1063028 #science #genome #domestication #evolution
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30-Oct-2024
#AncientDNA brings to life history of the iconic #aurochs, whose tale is intertwined with climate change and human culturehttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1063028 #science #genome #domestication #evolution
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Herd of tauros to be released into Highlands to recreate aurochs effect | Rewilding | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/10/herd-of-tauros-to-be-released-into-highlands-to-recreate-aurochs-effect -
Herd of tauros to be released into Highlands to recreate aurochs effect | Rewilding | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/10/herd-of-tauros-to-be-released-into-highlands-to-recreate-aurochs-effect -
Herd of #tauros to be released into Highlands to recreate #aurochs effect - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/10/herd-of-tauros-to-be-released-into-highlands-to-recreate-aurochs-effect "Large, cattle-like tauros will shape landscape and strengthen wildlife as huge, extinct herbivore once did" good to see these rewilding efforts
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Herd of #tauros to be released into Highlands to recreate #aurochs effect - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/10/herd-of-tauros-to-be-released-into-highlands-to-recreate-aurochs-effect "Large, cattle-like tauros will shape landscape and strengthen wildlife as huge, extinct herbivore once did" good to see these rewilding efforts
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You can now visit Britain's first 'super nature reserve' where ancient world is revived
https://www.devonlive.com/news/uk-world-news/you-can-now-visit-britains-8471645
#PurbeckHeath #Dorset #Wildlife #Animals #RSPB #Springwatch #NationalTrust #Aurochs #Ecology #Grassland #Heathland #NaturalEngland
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You can now visit Britain's first 'super nature reserve' where ancient world is revived
https://www.devonlive.com/news/uk-world-news/you-can-now-visit-britains-8471645
#PurbeckHeath #Dorset #Wildlife #Animals #RSPB #Springwatch #NationalTrust #Aurochs #Ecology #Grassland #Heathland #NaturalEngland
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"Please, tell me, priest – I've lost a parent , I must know! Were the first large inhabitants of #Euston the feared flesh-eating wild #aurochs? Do their still-solid #ghosts still plauge track maintenance and #HS2 workers to this day?"
HTs #WeirdLondon #TellingStories #hookland #Camden #LostThings #horn #London #photography
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Pretty sure this is from an #aurochs, but happy to have confirmation. Spent the morning in #Neath museum stores - a wonderland of materials that wants an in-depth collections review. Lots of relocations have meant details are lost and numbers no longer make sense. Hoping to help out - short term, keen to confirm if this is what I think it is (no numbers, no context for this - this is it for the archive).
#museums #archaeology #prehistory #portableantiquitiesscheme (on PAS business at least)
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Pretty sure this is from an #aurochs, but happy to have confirmation. Spent the morning in #Neath museum stores - a wonderland of materials that wants an in-depth collections review. Lots of relocations have meant details are lost and numbers no longer make sense. Hoping to help out - short term, keen to confirm if this is what I think it is (no numbers, no context for this - this is it for the archive).
#museums #archaeology #prehistory #portableantiquitiesscheme (on PAS business at least)
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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.
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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.
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#SundayArchaeology: How could one not be impressed by the incredible #VisualLanguage of Pre-Pottery #Neolithic #iconography?
"Give me a strong, dangerous #aurochs, horns full frontal. Make it run!" - "And ow about a slain ox? Obviously: tongue out, legs stretched. Totally dead."
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#SundayArchaeology: How could one not be impressed by the incredible #VisualLanguage of Pre-Pottery #Neolithic #iconography?
"Give me a strong, dangerous #aurochs, horns full frontal. Make it run!" - "And ow about a slain ox? Obviously: tongue out, legs stretched. Totally dead."
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#FossilAdventCalendar Day 15
Today we return to the #Nordic countries, specifically to the #Nationalmuseet in #Copenhagen 🇩🇰 to meet the #aurochs (Bos primigenius), the #extinct wild ancestor of modern #cattle. This #bull lived and died over 10,000 years ago in #Vig, on the #Danish island of #Sjaelland, but unlike many #IceAge #megafauna, it survived until surprisingly recently. In #Denmark, it persisted in #Jutland until around 2000 years ago; the last aurochs died in #Poland only in 1627.
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Also: Remember our slain #CatalHöyük #aurochs? https://t.co/pC9gXTbKiX
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Also: Remember our slain #CatalHöyük #aurochs? https://t.co/pC9gXTbKiX
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From SW #Libya there are more & in this context particularly interesting hunting depictions known:
Here's a scene showing an #aurochs bow-hunt complemented by use of so-called #Fangsteine: rocks, which, once a fleeing animal's been entangled, helped tiring & slowing it down.
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From SW #Libya there are more & in this context particularly interesting hunting depictions known:
Here's a scene showing an #aurochs bow-hunt complemented by use of so-called #Fangsteine: rocks, which, once a fleeing animal's been entangled, helped tiring & slowing it down.
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Admittedly, it's a bit challenging to really recognise a bow here in this #Sayburc scene. So, could it be something else then?
This offers a great chance to think about other possible #hunting tools and weapons which have played a role in #Neoltihic hunting, #aurochs and beyond.
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Admittedly, it's a bit challenging to really recognise a bow here in this #Sayburc scene. So, could it be something else then?
This offers a great chance to think about other possible #hunting tools and weapons which have played a role in #Neoltihic hunting, #aurochs and beyond.
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From, yet again, another quite special find at #GobekliTepe (a bone with the still embedded tip of a #projectile point), we know that bow and #arrow certainly played a role in #Neolithic #aurochs hunting.
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From, yet again, another quite special find at #GobekliTepe (a bone with the still embedded tip of a #projectile point), we know that bow and #arrow certainly played a role in #Neolithic #aurochs hunting.
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With the difference that in #CatalHöyük a group of people is depicted w/ an apparently *slain* #aurochs.
Its characteristic features (note the head: not any longer presenting horns (and danger), legs bend, tongue out) also known from #GobekliTepe's P66:
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With the difference that in #CatalHöyük a group of people is depicted w/ an apparently *slain* #aurochs.
Its characteristic features (note the head: not any longer presenting horns (and danger), legs bend, tongue out) also known from #GobekliTepe's P66:
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But again it is this combination of powerful animal (here an #aurochs, able to put up a fight) and human which makes the whole scene so interesting - and extraordinarily fascinating.
Somehow reminding of that famous (but a bit later) mural from #Neolithic #CatalHöyük ...
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But again it is this combination of powerful animal (here an #aurochs, able to put up a fight) and human which makes the whole scene so interesting - and extraordinarily fascinating.
Somehow reminding of that famous (but a bit later) mural from #Neolithic #CatalHöyük ...
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This mode of depicting #aurochs heads even has become so specific that it’s been turned into what almost could be considered kind of a #Neolithic #meme:
The #bucranium substituting the whole animal and, emphasising the horns, arguably its most dangerous and impressive element. https://t.co/CPDZxn8kwW
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This mode of depicting #aurochs heads even has become so specific that it’s been turned into what almost could be considered kind of a #Neolithic #meme:
The #bucranium substituting the whole animal and, emphasising the horns, arguably its most dangerous and impressive element. https://t.co/CPDZxn8kwW
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Again, the #Sayburc #aurochs absolutely corresponds to what we'd expect considering the known #Neolithic iconographic programme:
The animal's depicted in sideview, but the head is turned, seen from the front, emphasising the horns as if attacking (again signalling danger).
