|
| 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.
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