Bovini
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The tribe Bovini or wild cattle are medium to massive bovines that are native to Eurasia, North America, and Africa. These include the enigmatic, antelope-like saola, the African and Asiatic buffaloes
Blonde Aquitaine
The gaur is the largest species of their lineage.
American bison, a species that lives on the open plains of North America
Water buffalo ramming against each other using the weight of their heads and their horns.
Aurochs
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The aurochs is an extinct species of bovine, considered to be the wild ancestor of modern domestic cattle. With a shoulder height of up to 1.8 m in bulls and 1.55 m in cows, it was one of the largest
Bovini
…are threatened by extinction due to habitat loss to make room for cattle farming as well as unregulated hunting. Some are already extinct like the aurochs, two subspecies of European bison and perhaps the kouprey. In 1821 British zoologist John Edward Gray described the family, subfamily and tribe Bovidae…
Copenhagen Aurochse
Illustration by Sigismund von Herberstein captioned: Urus sum, polonis Tur, germanis Aurox; ignari Bisontis nomen dederant; translated: "I am Urus, Tur in Polish, Aurox in German; the ignorant ones gave me the name Bison"
Aurochs skeleton from Zealand island in Denmark on display in the Natural History Museum of Denmark
Drawing based on an aurochs bull skeleton from Lund and a cow skeleton from Cambridge, with characteristic features of the aurochs