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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 February 2025. Extinct species of large cattle Not to be confused with Bos taurus, European bison, or Oryx. Aurochs Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene–Holocene Pre๊ ๊ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Mounted skeleton of an aurochs bull at the National Museum of Denmark Conservation status Extinct (1627 ...
A bison (pl.: bison) is a large bovine in the genus Bison (Greek: "wild ox" (bison) [1]) within the tribe Bovini.Two extant and numerous extinct species are recognised.. Of the two surviving species, the American bison, B. bison, found only in North America, is the more numerous.
[note 1] It has been translated as "unicorn" in the Latin Vulgate, King James Version, and in some Christian Bible translations as "oryx" (which was accepted as the referent in Modern Hebrew), [citation needed] "wild ox", "wild bull", "buffalo" or "rhinoceros". [1] Natan Slifkin has argued that the re'em was an aurochs, [2] as has Isaac Asimov ...
Banteng, or wild ox; Gaur, or wild ox; Re'em, a Biblical animal sometimes translated as wild ox; People. Vsevolod IV of Kiev, or Wsiewolod the Wild Ox; See also
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The heaviest wild bull for B.b.bison ever recorded weighed 1,270 kg (2,800 lb) [34] while there had been bulls estimated to be 1,400 kg (3,000 lb). [35] B.b.athabascae is significantly larger and heavier on average than B.b.bison while the number of recorded samples for the former was limited after the rediscovery of a relatively pure herd. [23]
In Deuteronomy, it has traditionally been translated as wild goat, but in the same translations is called a wild ox where it occurs in Isaiah; [13] the bubal hartebeest lies somewhere between these creatures in appearance and has been regarded as a likely fit for the'o.
Wildebeest is Dutch for 'wild beast', 'wild ox' or 'wild cattle' in Afrikaans (bees 'cattle'), [citation needed] The name was given by Dutch settlers who saw them on their way to the interior of South Africa in about 1700 because they resemble wild ox. The blue wildebeest was first known to westerners in the northern part of South Africa a ...