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Wild horses and cattle find there way back to European nature |
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Written by Andrejs Vizulis
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Sunday, 24 April 2011 14:57 |
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Large grazers like auroch, wisent and somewhat less the tarpan where an important part of European fauna in prehistoric times, until agriculture became common in Europe. In the Baltic’s wisent and tarpan still survived the medieval, the auroch dies out in this region around 1500, the tarpan around 1700 and the wisent around 1750. The wisent survives in European zoo’s, but both the auroch and tarpan, the wild European caw and horse have become extinct; only their domesticated offspring have survived in all kinds of forms and breeds. About bovids it is known that the auroch was very different from the domesticated bovines. Archaeological findings prove that the auroch could easily be distinguished from domestic cattle. This is unlike the horse: archaeologists are often not able to make this differentiation when horse bones are excavated. Some domesticated horses are still very close to the extinct wild horse, the tarpan.
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 02 October 2010 16:37 |
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In 2000 Ark foundation started in cooperation with two private cattle breeders a program for breeding a strong natural cow suitable for free live in Latvian nature. Two herds where formed from a selection of Latvian brown and blue cattle, one near Rucava and one near Zaube. These animals where to be crossbred with Hungarian grey- and Scottish highland- cattle. In the summer of 2000 Rigas ZOO provided Ark Foundation with 2 cows and 2 bulls of the breed Hungarian grey. Later one other 2 cows were given, all animals where provided to make Ark’s crossbreeding experiment possible.
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