aurochs
Cattle's wild ancestor
Aurochs is an extinct species of wild cattle that once roamed Europe, Asia, and North Africa—the ancestor of modern domestic cattle.
The plural is also aurochs.
The last aurochs died in Poland in 1627.
The word appears most often in historical or ecological contexts: Cave paintings at Lascaux depict aurochs hunts.
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
wisent · zebu · yak · bovid · ruminant · horned · hoofed · herd
Not domesticated
- feralWild after domestication
- fierceViolently intense or aggressive
- dangerousApt to cause harm
- powerfulHaving great strength
formidable · massive · muscular · imposing · aggressive · temperament · undomesticated · free-roaming
Species over 44 kilograms
- cave-paintingsAncient images on cavern walls
- paleolithicEarliest tool-making period
- neolithicFinal Stone Age period
- fossilPreserved ancient organism
Disappeared from sight
- lostUnable to navigate
- extirpatedTotally removed or destroyed
- goneNo longer present
- bygoneOf earlier times
disappeared · last · final · hunting · overhunting · deforestation · decline · remnant
cattle
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
bison · wisent · zebu · yak · bovid · ruminant · horned · hoofed · herd · grazing
untamed
Not domesticated
powerful · formidable · massive · muscular · imposing · aggressive · temperament · undomesticated · free-roaming · forests
megafauna
Species over 44 kilograms
- cave-paintingsAncient images on cavern walls
- paleolithicEarliest tool-making period
- neolithicFinal Stone Age period
fossil · ancient · primeval · hunter-gatherers · stone-age
vanished
Disappeared from sight
- lostUnable to navigate
- extirpatedTotally removed or destroyed
- goneNo longer present
bygone · disappeared · last · final · hunting · overhunting · deforestation · decline · remnant · surviving
hunting
Pursuing wild game
mythology · heraldry · symbol · strength · virility · rewilding · reconstruction
- Beastsbeast, monster, predator, bull, elephant
- Bullsbull market, bull pen, bull riding, bull run, bull terrier
- cattlecow, moo, cows, bull, bulls
- Extinct Animalsdinosaur, dinosaurs, tyrannosaurus, dodo, mammoth
- extinct creaturesdinosaurs, trilobites, ammonites, mammoths, pterosaurs
- herbivoreshorse, cow, elephant, zebra, rabbit