[HN Gopher] The once-extinct auroch may soon roam Europe again
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       The once-extinct auroch may soon roam Europe again
        
       Author : CapitalistCartr
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2022-02-13 22:24 UTC (36 minutes ago)
        
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       | mikequinlan wrote:
       | "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they
       | could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
        
       | RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote:
       | > Also noticeably absent in the Auerrind Project's stock are Heck
       | cattle, the striking, aggressive breed created in the 1920s by
       | two German zoo directors, Heinz and Lutz Heck. Despite the lack
       | of modern-day knowledge of genetics, the Heck brothers both
       | claimed to have recreated aurochs through back-breeding. Heinz
       | even wrote, "The wild bull, the aurochs, lives again."
       | Disturbingly, these early attempts at creating aurochs dovetailed
       | with the fascist politics of the time. Lutz in particular, who
       | was a member of the Nazi Party, convinced Hermann Goring that the
       | return of ancient European beasts like aurochs and tarpan, or
       | wild horses, fit with the the National Socialist Party's
       | ideological push to recreate an imagined European past.
       | 
       | At least some of this is the background for the excellent movie
       | "The Zookeeper's Wife" starring Jessica Chastain
        
       | bitwize wrote:
       | Just an fyi, the singular of the beast's name is indeed
       | "aurochs". Whoever titled this story for HN need not have
       | corrected it.
        
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