[HN Gopher] The once-extinct auroch may soon roam Europe again ___________________________________________________________________ The once-extinct auroch may soon roam Europe again Author : CapitalistCartr Score : 13 points Date : 2022-02-13 22:24 UTC (36 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (www.atlasobscura.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.atlasobscura.com) | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-02-13 23:00 UTC)