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aurochs::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bison bonasus, wisent |
| Type of | bison |
aurochs::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | bos primigenius, urus |
| Type of | ox, wild ox |
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That might work, for example, with the aurochs, an ancient breed of wild cattle.
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The aurochs originally ranged throughout Europe, North Africa, and much of Asia.
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It had died out when he was 16, is there any source stating it depicts an aurochs?
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Others said that there were two species, namely the European bison and the aurochs.
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Some scientists had criticism on this change of the scientific name of the aurochs.
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It is not to be confused with the aurochs, the extinct ancestor of domestic cattle.
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This was the only way to research and unmask all those mysteries around the aurochs.
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In the time of Linnaeus the memory of the aurochs was almost completely disappeared.
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So a wild ox, in that sense, is simply a wild bovine, which the aurochs was.
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- Wisent: European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison
- Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle
- The aurochs or urus (Bos primigenius), the ancestor of domestic cattle, was a type of huge wild cattle which inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa, but is now extinct; it survived in Europe until 1627.
- (pronounced OR-rox) Aurochs was a large, wild ox that lived in Europe. This hoofed mammal (an artiodactyl) went extinct in 1627. It was black and had forward-curving horns; it stood about 6 feet (1.8 m) tall at the shoulder. The aurochs was the ancestor of domestic cattle. ...
- Bos taurus primigenius a giant (skeletal remains show them as being fully 2 m tall at the shoulder) form of early cattle, no longer found in Britain after the Bronze Age but which continued to wander the forests and grasslands of Southern and Central Europe. ...
