Sentences with phrase «wild cattle»

The phrase "wild cattle" refers to cattle that live and roam freely without human ownership or control. They are not domesticated and behave similarly to wild animals in nature. Full definition
At the Lascaux Cave in France, a large bull was drawn over earlier paintings of wild cattle more than 10,000 years ago.
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.
«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.
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.
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.
The unusual name, incidentally, comes from a species of now - extinct wild cattle that used to roam Europe, Asia, and northern Africa.
In the tropical north, a robust, short - coated dog was needed to herd large, half - wild cattle in the outback.
Animals include macaque monkeys and the black monkey which is very timid, deer, wild boars, leopard cats, wild cattle known as banteng, iguanas, pythons and squirrels.
Nestled in quiet bushland, facing the estuary where the salty seas of the main beach combine with the freshwater of Wild Cattle Creek, Discovery Holiday Park is just shy of the main strip but close enough that you don't really need a car if you want to explore.
The wind farm will be at Wild Cattle Hill, near Waddamana, about 50 km west of Oatlands in the Central Highlands.
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.
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 are no wild cattle, for instance.
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.
Among the rhinos, wild cattle, and other animals, they sketched a white horse with black spots.
Other species included mammoth, elk, wild cattle, wolf, arctic fox, arctic hare and brown bear.
The wild cattle bones come from all parts of the skeleton (including the head, the neck, all limbs, and the feet), and the bones show clear signs of cut marks, indicating that the animals were butchered.
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.
In 1838, King Kamehameha III requested that Mexican vaqueros from California travel to Hawaiʻi to teach Hawaiians how to manage herds of wild cattle.
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.
WCS says the conservation area has more than 60 species of animals that are threatened or near - threatened and is «of international importance for the conservation of primates, Asian elephants, wild cattle and several species of birds.»
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