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Chillingham cattle, cow and master bull

Chillingham Park, Northumberland, 15th July 2005

Chillingham cattle, cow and master bull
gentle lemur, 3 Aug 2013
    • gentle lemur
      Chillingham Park, Northumberland, 15th July 2006
    • Pertinax
      Great shots. I have several postcards of them but no personal souvenir like this. The bull looks like he is 'hooting' a challenge.

      You can see the reddish hair of the ears in these photos. The Chillinghams are significantly different in appearance from those four other herds of Wild Park cattle (and far more wild too)
    • gentle lemur
      Yes, the bull was taking an interest in this cow, I think he considered she might be coming into season. As I explained in the thread I had a privileged view of the herd.

      Alan
    • IanRRobinson
      I'm sure these are as close to Aurochs as you can get, but they're small in comparison.

      The Aurochs must have been a massive beast. For Julius Caesar to compare them to elephants (and the form that he was probably thinking about was Loxodonta cyclotis) suggests an animal that must have matched, or probably exceeded Gaur in size.
    • Pertinax
    • IanRRobinson
      I have to say, that at my first sight of the animals these days known as "Heck Cattle", I was disappointed. They looked to me like Spanish fighting bulls - which I suppose they are in part.
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