'Nazi Cows' Roam English Countryside

[cali]

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Through the misty early morning sunlight dappling a Devon field, a vision from the primeval past lumbers into view.

The beast with its shaggy, russet-tinged coat, powerful shoulders and lyre-shaped horns could have stepped straight from a prehistoric cave painting.

The vision is a creature of which even Julius Caesar was in awe: Bos primigenius, the aurochs, fearsome wild ancestor of all today’s domestic cattle, immortalized tens of thousands of years ago in ochre and charcoal in the Great Hall of the Bulls at Lascaux in southwest France.

But this herd of 13 bulls, cows and calves known as Heck cattle is the product of Nazi genetic engineering, an attempt to reintroduce the extinct aurochs, the last of which died of old age in a Polish forest nearly four centuries ago.

The cattle have been imported into Britain for the first time by Derek Gow, a conservationist who is also at the forefront of attempts to reintroduce the beaver.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517456,00.html


How often do you come across a headline this awesome?

[XemaSab]

1. Happy cows come from California.

Nazi cows... :scared:

[No More Bushbots]

5. I voted for April

[Occam Bandage]

2. That's an awesome story. nt

[Ian David]

3. Here's a photo...

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. AAHHH! A Jack-Booted Bovine.

The horror.


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The horror

[HereSince1628]

4. I read of this years ago and then lost the citation that talked about the back-breeding

Thanks. Printed off and filed in the old "Pliestocene Park" file.

[AspenRose]

6. I didn't know Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin were on tour!

A UK tour, how fascinating.

[supernova]

7. Auroch is the variety name

Cool animals. They aren't quite as big as the original yet, but still good to see them.

[beac]

8. From the headline, I thought

Karen Hughes and Condi Rice were on vacation somewhere together.

:hide:

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Several headline writes have had a field day (ha, ha) with this

Nazi supercows at Devon farm

Hitler has only got one bull (and it's alive and well in the West Country)

The Herd Reich ("A Nazi piece of work")

Nazi cattle invade Britain with help from Highland cows