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T he EuropeanWildlife video channel on youtube released a new video of the Tauros herd in Milovice, Czech Republic. Back in 2015, when the herd was released there, the cattle looked like that .  This is what they look like now:  I like the bull. At first glance, when I discovered the thumbnail of the video, I thought it was a Texas longhorn bull. Colour, face and horn shape somehow fit, and the horns are quite large, about the size of that of a Maremmana bull. It was already recognizable when the bull was young that its horns are going to be large because it had massive horn bases. The body is, in my opinion, similar to some Taurus bulls and absolutely OK, and I like the skull shape - it is elongate, with a slightly convex profile and thus quite aurochs-like. It has a faint saddle, but I won't nitpick on that. All in all, the bull reminds me of Taurus bulls except for the "Texan" horn shape.  The cow at 0:35 has mighty horns as well. It has a silvery tint in its coat colo...

T he Auerrind project is really progressing quickly at the moment; now, Claus Kropp has announced that three young bulls have been moved to another new conservation area named Senne und Teutoburger Wald in Germany. The three young bulls are the Sayaguesa x Chianina and the two young Sayaguesa x Hungarian Grey bulls.  Sayaguesa x Chianina (left) plus two Sayaguesa x Hungarian Grey young bulls (© www.auerrind.wordpress.com) The half-Chianina bull is already recognizably larger than the half-Hungarian Grey bulls - this can also mean that it just grows faster, but considering that Chianina are a few decimeters larger than Hungarian Grey on average it is likely that it will remain taller than the others. I think its coat looks like it is about to show its final colour. What is interesting is that Sayaguesa x Chianina bulls can show the full spectrum of an almost white colour to a perfect aurochs colour (this bull seems to be somewhere in between), what is unexpected since both breeds...