Sentences with phrase «of wild cattle»

It is made out of a bone from an aurochs, a type of wild cattle, and shows the importance of wood in the Mesolithic period.

At the Lascaux Cave in France, a large bull was drawn over earlier paintings of wild cattle more than 10,000 years ago.

Not exact matches

We run with wild animals and cattle, we shrink from creeping things, and we wonder at the grace of flying birds.

Wild animals are being displaced by domestic cattle, and their habitats changed mostly to the disadvantage of the wildlife, which sometimes is driven to extinction.

Lev 26:22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number

The Buccaneers were men of many nations, who hunted the wild cattle, which had increased prodigiously from the original Spanish stock; after taking off the hide, they served the flesh as the Caribs served their captives.»

«There's a big question around whether those are truly wild free ranging herds, or whether there is so much management that's happening around them that they are no longer really wild; they're just like ranched cattle,» says Craig Hilton - Taylor, head of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List Unit in Cambridge, UK.

«An important way to create more self - managing ecosystems with a high level of biodiversity is to make room for large herbivores in the European landscape — and possibly reintroduce animals such as wild cattle, bison and even elephants.

The findings suggest that although wild animals may be important for the transmission of new diseases to humans, humanity's oldest companions — livestock and pets such as cattle and dogs provide the vital link in the emergence of new diseases.

This work has suggested that all European cattle, Bos taurus, originated in south - west Turkey, where they were domesticated from the aurochs, an extinct type of wild ox.

The research team from UVic and partner universities in the US and Jordan has found the oldest evidence of protein residue — the residual remains of butchered animals including horse, rhinoceros, wild cattle and duck — on stone tools.

But even in the case of pigs or cattle, interbreeding between domestic and wild animals has created long and complex evolutionary and domestication histories that challenge assumptions regarding genetic isolation and long - held definitions of domestication.

Traditionally most Maasai hunt, gather wild fruits and vegetables, and raise cattle, but do little farming, making their way of life a fair surrogate for that of the preagricultural Natufians, Weissbrod says, although it should be noted that the Maasai are a fully modern people no more closely related to early hunter - gatherers than are any other people on Earth.

WILD elephants roam across the crowded plains of India; forested river banks wind through cattle ranches in Brazil; a ribbon of green stretches across Europe where the Iron Curtain used to be.

U.S. wildlife managers re-introduced wolves to the wilds of the Northern Rockies in the mid-1990s over objections from the cattle industry and sportsmen, and their numbers ultimately exceeded recovery goals set by the federal government.

At a just - concluded archaeology meeting in Paris, and in a paper published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they draw upon further studies at the site to argue that the animal remains — which include the shells of 71 tortoises and the bones of at least three wild cattle — were consumed during a feast to commemorate the death and burial of the woman.

Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, it killed 90 % of the cattle and large proportions of domestic oxen used to pull plows, and decimated wild buffalo, giraffe, and wildebeest populations.

At Neolithic sites such as Çatalhöyük in Turkey, for example, archaeologists have found evidence that wild cattle bones were deposited in the foundations of mud - brick houses; the bones may be the remains of neighborhood feasts to celebrate the building of new dwellings.

Once herds of bison, deer, wild horses, and cattle were wiped out or domesticated, land that was not farmed or managed rapidly turned into thick forest.

Just past the town of Almere, as you round a right - hand bend, you will find a sight unseen in Europe for centuries, if not millennia: hundreds of red deer, plodding groups of long - horned wild cattle, and skittish herds of low - slung brown horses, all moving through the open landscape like something out of a cave painting.

Just a short train ride from downtown Amsterdam, nearly 3,000 wild horses, deer, and descendants of prehistoric cattle roam a landscape that is being dramatically shaped by their presence.

The saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), a primitive wild cattle endemic to the Annamite mountain range in Vietnam and Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR), is in immediate danger of extinction.

Savory argues that livestock such as cattle, when moved around ranches in patterns that simulate the movements of large herds of wild grass eaters, can help stimulate the -LSB-...]

Brady's entire life, the only thing he is and ever wanted to be, is that of a horse trainer, a cowboy who does not tend to cattle but makes his living from training other people's wild horses and participating in rodeos.

The unusual name, incidentally, comes from a species of now - extinct wild cattle that used to roam Europe, Asia, and northern Africa.

The Urus is one of the large, wild ancestors of domestic cattle.

Named after a species of wild Ox that predates the modern domestic cattle, the Urus is Lamborghini's second SUV that comes nearly 25 years after their first SUV, the LM002, went out of production.

When we hear the word «frontier,» our thoughts often turn to the wild, untamed West, full of wagon trains, cattle drives and little houses on the prairie, where rugged men and women eked out a meager existence in their search for open space, gold or simply a new life.

Catahoulas excel at herding and hunting almost any type of cattle or game (including wild boar, raccoon, squirrel, bear, and deer).

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This region eventually became an important cattle area, and the descendants of the Roman cattle dogs proved their worth in both droving and protecting the cattle from robbers and wild animals.

Within 53 years of Dutch colonisation in Southern Africa and the origins of the wagon - trekking boers later known as Afrikaners, who converted vast stretches of wild veld into farmland, hunted for meat and defended their cattle herds, staff, and homesteads from lion, the Europeans were using these local dogs themselves.

The dog is obviously susceptible as are many specieis of animals (including cattle, sheep, pigs and wild animals, etc) The cat very rarely suffers from clinical Leptospirosis and some feel the cat possesses a species immunity.

In Germany, the Molossian type became the Bullenbeisser, a courageous dog that hunted the fierce aurochs, a wild progenitor of domestic cattle.

Bred to cover vast sections of land while herding the wilder types of cattle, they remain primarily working dogs on working ranches rather than over-bred show dogs.

Some guy living in a two bedroom apartment with his family, has no need of a dog bred to tackle wild boar and cattle.

Get a taste of the wild west with tailored itineraries that include everything from horseback riding to cattle drives, helicopter tours above Glacier or Yellowstone National Parks, and even sapphire panning.

It is customary to see real cowboys, wild horses, cattle traffic jams, wild bull fights, wild monkeys, thousand of species of birds & more.

The trip TO Tikal was also an eventful one full of wild turkeys, pigs, a rare Orange Breasted Falcon, goats and even a herd of cattle.)

It is a coming of age story of a young boy orphaned and left to wander «a wild land of canyons and buttes, and on dust - choked cattle trails.»

Hence, we see very few of the deer and antelope species, fewer still of the swine, the wild cattle and the larger and rarer goats and sheep.

In my local paper yesterday, the Eureka Times Standard, and also in the NY Times, there were two separate articles discussing the killings of two wild species in favor of protecting cattle grazing pastures.

The wind farm will be at Wild Cattle Hill, near Waddamana, about 50 km west of Oatlands in the Central Highlands.

Yes, cattle releases a lot of methane, however, we have greatly reduced the number of wild grazing animals over the last 10,000 years so that probably makes up for at least some of that methane.

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The Montana Department of Agriculture fears the contamination of cattle by bison carrying the disease brucellosis, although there are no known cases of brucellosis passed by bison to domestic cattle in the wild.

Exploring The Burren — an alien - looking limestone landscape on Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way, which has been used for cattle farmers as winter grazing land (winter grazing is unheard of in much of the rest of Europe) for more than 6,000 years.