Heck cattle

A typical Heck bull should be at least 1.6 m (5'3") high and a cow 1.4 m (4'7"), with weight 600 to 900 kg (1,300 to 2,000 lb). Heck cattle are twenty to thirty centimeters shorter than the aurochs they were bred to resemble. However, cross-breeding efforts continue to increase the size and weight of the breed, particularly in Germany.

The Heck bulls were not much larger than the bull of most breeds of domestic cattle, while wild aurochs bulls are believed to have often exceeded 1000 kilograms (2,200 lb), half the size of a rhinoceros. So the African Watusi cattle were then brought into the herd. The result was a somewhat larger animal, but it also caused infertility among the cows, a sign of the genetic divergence that had occurred between these populations of Bos over the millennia. Heck cattle were first bred outside of a zoo in 1980. There were 88 registered at that time. Continued crossbreeding with these animals resolved the infertility in the cows.

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[Hestemand47]

these cows grazed in the woodlands of my hometown,, thank u for your respons

[0prahTV]

Is this a cut scene from Blair Witch Project?

[Hestemand47]

these cows grazed in the woodlands of my hometown,, thank u  for your respons

[iamahmmond]

@klaverenvrouwke You're right. Those are Tudanca cattle.

Heck cattle can be found also in Germany, and France. Somebody even imported some to Britain. Both France and Germany both have breeding organizations dedicated to breed, and the aim of breeding them closer to the appearance to the auroch. I think those organizations days might be numbered now that Project Tauros is using a genome map to determine which breeds are the best suited to recreate the aurochs.

[klaverenvrouwke]

Those aren't Heck cattle but Tudanca cattle. A domesticated breed from the mediterranean and one of the breeds used by the Dutch Tauros project to breed back the Aurochs. Heck cattle can only be found in the Oostvaardersplassen and in a reserve in Zeeland i believe. Nice to see them fulfilling their niche in the ecosystem though

[klaverenvrouwke]

@Hestemand47 Those aren't Heck cattle but Tudanca cattle. A domesticated breed from the mediterranean and one of the breeds used by the Dutch Tauros project to breed back the Aurochs. Heck cattle can only be found in the Oostvaardersplassen and in a reserve in Zeeland i believe. Nice to see them fulfilling their niche in the ecosystem though

[klaverenvrouwke]

Those aren't Heck cattle but Tudanca cattle. A domesticated breed from the mediterranean and one of the breeds used by the Dutch Tauros project to breed back the Aurochs. Heck cattle can only be found in the Oostvaardersplassen and in a reserve in Zeeland i believe.

[yohsnet]

Wild cows are more likely to extinct than wild tunas. Cows should be ruled by Washington Convention rather than tunas. Domestic cows are eaten by many people. So the process of ruling of the wild cows will be reasonable, and the reasonable process will be a good weapon to make tunas ruled by the convention.

[ihatelifejosemartine]

Good to see scientists trying to bring them back.