Heck or Aurochs???

Heck claiming to be Aurochs outside of Divonne Les Bains, France.

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Pets & Animals

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• Heck
• Aurochs
• Cattle
• Divonne
• France
• Animal

[SexyBack887]

The aurochs or urus (Bos primigenius) was a very large type of cattle that was prevalent in Europe until its extinction in 1627

[munkeeguy]

I thought the Aurochs were huge, but these look rather small.

[Tarbtano]

@munkeeguy

heck cattle so far have only be able to replicate the Aurochs in appearance (still are some visual differences), not behavior [aurochs were known for their foul temperament] and are only about half the size

[mcdbull]

Form to function see Diarmid cattle. Not Heck cattle which used 18 or more breeds for gene-pool. I used three or less. The idea was to create a tool for ecology. Studies show it is possible to see a ten fold increase in flora and fauna utilizing Highland cattle as Aurochs representitive species. We had 20 years experience and produced 13 colors. Regarding size.... breeding for current environmental conditions, thus smaller beast . A most useful tool during the largest mass extinction .

[xor12]

Size is less important than most think,.. But Heck cattle, has behavior problems, wrong horn formation, coat color is not always correct, DNA ( just forget it...).

If you don´t have problems to get only « looks alike aurochs» and not true aurochs, do a good selection inside Heck cattle and put the animals on a forest.

If you want to see true aurochsen again, wait for Project Tauros results.

[Yezpahr]

The younger ones do seem to be rather afraid of the human filming it.

Seems like the mother is more domesticated cow than her young and there actually IS some strain of the fear-DNA in it.

Something all prey-animals have.

The AUROCHS did go extinct, but some of it's DNA might have gotten on to other cows as a side-effect of cross-species-breeding.

[VASIOOO]

@PhilipK100

dna size and format of the body

[PhilipK100]

Can any one compare the size of an ancient Auroch to an American Bison/Buffalo. Is there THAT much of a difference in DNA or size?

[horsebackbob]

They are planning to select and interbreed until they have something that resembles the auroch... They have a crude DNA map of the extinct auroch, but there wil be no DNA manipulation. Just something that looks like them, but very different.

[killpath]

We have usable DNA... it will be back.

[Sirwastealot]

Guess what? They're coming back!

[reallyrandomdude23]

aurochs were like 6 feet high and super aggressive. and yes, they have been extinct for 400 years, but scientists are planning to bring them back just like they did with that type of ibex a while back