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Перевод: aurochs

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Тезаурус:

1. The wild aurochs, as big as a modern English Longhorn, was widespread in Britain while there was still a landbridge linking the land to the Continent after the retreat of the glaciers of the last Ice Age, but it died out here during the Bronze Age 3,000 years ago and it never reached Ireland.
2. No doubt they will find the experience a tad disorienting, but if they manage to avoid the marauding aurochs by day and the preying sabre-toothed tigers by night, they may find much in their new environment that is congenial.
3. They were generally about the size of a modern Ayrshire but otherwise still had many similarities with the wild aurochs in their shape, horns and the noticeable difference in size between male and female (sexual dimorphism).
4. But the breed's origins are uncertain and the theories are numerous - that they are almost directly descended from the wild aurochs, for example (the claim of many a breed!) or are at least of Bos primigenius stock like the Podolians of the steppes, or are descended from large, long-horned continental cattle imported several centuries ago (some say by the Romans), or were imported 3,000-;4,000 years ago, or came from Ireland where they were an ancient indigenous type, or were developed from Dutch and old English breeds before the eighteenth century, or must have Norse origins because of their coat colour and pattern.
5. The dished face is also seen in Spanish cattle along with the typical "mealy" or "deer" muzzle - a pale halo surrounding the dark-skinned nose, found too in Alpine and humpless West African breeds and in the ancient aurochs itself.