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Recreating the Auroch

What an interesting project.

https://www.inverse.com/article/2582...eration-tauros
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30-12-2016, 10:47 PM
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Interesting article in the D.Telegraph too. Mind you, the Japs have been trying to bring back dinosaurs for years
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It is very interesting & I would love to see Woolly Mamoths again.
I love the Ice Age films.
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Originally Posted by Muddy ->
What an interesting project.

https://www.inverse.com/article/2582...eration-tauros


I think you'd best stick to the Lab/Collie though Muddy.
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Goering supported an auroch breeding program for the Nazis .....

German zoologists and brothers Heinz and Lutz Heck, recruited by the Nazis, began a program to resurrect extinct wild species by cross-breeding various domestic descendants — an effort typically referred to as “back breeding.” Among their success stories was the half-ton Heck cattle, a reasonable facsimile of the hearty and Herculean auroch cattle that dated back some 2 million years prior and has roamed en masse all over Germany centuries prior.

The back-breeding program reflected the dual Nazi obsession with eugenics and nostalgia; the wild ancestry of the auroch reflected a time of “biological unity” before civilization softened and “uglified” man and beast alike. And in fact, the program’s research patron, one Hermann Goring, sought to preserve biological unity not only by resurrecting extinct species, but by restoring them to their original habitats; thus his plan was to return the aurochs to the primeval Białowieża forest.
http://modernfarmer.com/2015/01/nazi...wful-expected/
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People still drive the Volkswagen Hitlers car for the people .
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People still drive the Volkswagen Hitlers car for the people .
Was the Volkswagen genetically engineered?

I've driven lots of VW's but, AFAIK, the primeval Bialowieza forest in Poland was not "purged" of 20,000 people to build any of them, as it was for the Heck experiment.
 



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