Results for "extinct"
8 breeds found.
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 5 moreTauros
A breeding-back project building hardy cattle to stand in for the extinct aurochsWild · Grazing · Cold-hardy
🇵🇱 Poland and 5 moreAurochs
The wild ancestor of all domestic cattle, extinct since 1627Wild · Long-horned
🇮🇳 India and 2 moreIndian aurochs
An extinct wild ancestor of zebu cattle that lived in South Asia until the Stone Age.Wild
🇩🇪 Germany and 3 moreHeck
A German type bred in the 1920s to recreate the extinct aurochsTaurine · Grazing · Cold-hardy
🇭🇷 Croatia and 1 moreBoškarin
A gray dual-purpose breed from the Istrian peninsula, kept for milk and gourmet beef.Taurine · Dual-purpose · Docile
🇩🇪 Germany and 1 moreMurnau-Werdenfels
A long-lived brown dairy breed of the Bavarian uplands, milk and beefTaurine · Dairy · Long-lived
🇮🇳 IndiaAlambadi
A humped draught breed from Tamil Nadu, horned and now close to extinctionZebu · Draught · Quick and strong
🇩🇪 Germany and 2 moreTaurus cattle
Long-legged cross-bred cattle bred in Germany to stand in for the extinct aurochsComposite · Grazing
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Heck: 4028mdk09, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Aurochs: Jaap Rouwenhorst (photograph) DFoidl (GIMP modifications), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Indian aurochs: Jochen Ackermann (User name: Altaileopard ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Murnau-Werdenfels: Pippo-b, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Alambadi: Thamizhpparithi Maari, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pajuna: DFoidl, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Boškarin: Orlovic, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Taurus cattle: DFoidl, CC BY-SA 3.0, source