DANGERS OF RE-BRED AUROCHS

Nazis tried to re-breed the extinct aurochs or urus, an extinct animal from which domestic cattle descend.  A farmer who has some descendants of the experimental animals (called Heck cattle) now claim some are killers.  Heck cattle today seem to be descended from experiments conducted by Heinz Heck (1893-1982).   We might point out that ordinary feral domestic cattle can be extremely fierce.  We should also mention that Heck cattle breeds differ markedly from the aurochs they were intended to recreate.

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