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Aurochs
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The aurochs (pl. aurochs, or rarely aurochsen, aurochses), cried urus, ure (Bos primigenius) an aw, is an extinct species o muckle wild cattle that inhabitit Europe, Asie, an North Africae. It is the auncestor o domestic cattle. The species survived in Europe till the last recordit aurochs dee'd in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland, in 1627.
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Quick Facts Aurochs Temporal range: Frae early Pleistocene to1627 (wild form) resp. Present (domestic form), Conservation status ...
Aurochs | |
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Moontit skelet o a bull foond in Vig, Denmark, Naitional Museum o Denmark | |
Conservation status | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Faimily: | Bovidae |
Subfaimily: | Bovinae |
Genus: | Bos |
Species: | †B. primigenius |
Binomial name | |
†Bos primigenius (Bojanus, 1827) | |
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Distribution o the three subspecies | |
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