aurochs

It was a beautiful, gently rolling country, broken by occasional outcroppings of sandstone and by patches of dense forest relieved by open, park-like stretches and broad meadows whereon grazed countless herbivorous animals--red deer, aurochs, and infinite variety of antelope and at least three distinct species of horse, the latter ranging in size from a creature about as large as Nobs to a magnificent animal fourteen to sixteen hands high.

Trinity researcher Marta Verdugo said: "Sequencing Near Eastern wild cattle, or aurochs, allowed the team to unravel the domestication process of this most formidable of beasts."

Going back in time, he said the landscape was shaped by aurochs - the predecessors of cattle - rather than sheep, which arrived on our shores from the Middle East.

In which, there are extrinsic and intrinsic factors, extrinsic factors and examples are shown as follows: habitat degradation (Aurochs in 1627, Caucasian Bison in 1925, New Mexican Wolf in 1920, Barbary Lion in 1922 and Tasmanian Wolf in 1933), introduction of exotic species (Eichhornia crassipes in China), over-exploitation (hunting and fishing).

Present day domestic cattle were domesticated from the extinct aurochs, Bos primigenius (Payne, 1991; Troy et al., 2001).

Bathsheba tells the tale of the aurochs feasting on humans, a close up of her thigh provides a simple tattoo drawing of the scene she describes.

Conversely, the world-wide genome-wide analysis of ancestry, divergence and admixture revealed that African taurine cattle were first domesticated in the Middle East and later hybridized with African aurochs [10].

Our ecology evolved with large herbivores -- with free-roaming herds of aurochs (the ancestral cow), tarpan (the original horse), elk, bear, bison, red deer, roe deer, wild boar and millions of beavers.

An investigation of the origins of cattle and aurochs deposited in the Early Bronze Age barrows at Gayhurst and Irthlingborough.