[Sca-cooks] Re: [Sca-cooks]Aurochs was: Regretable foods.... OOP]

[Decker, Terry D.]

"Aurochs" has been used to refer to both the urus (Bos primigenius) and the
wisent (Bison bonasus).

IIRC, the urus, a large, wild ox, was believed extinct by the 5th Century.
The wisent is rare, but can still be found.  It is a smaller version of the
North American bison.

Bear

> >Philip & Susan Troy wrote: snipped .....................
>
> > example, the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial has some drinking horns taken
> >from the aurochs, which is believed to have been extinct
> (and may have
> >been)   by the approximate time of the burial (7th-8th C. C.E.?)
>
>     I realize England is not Poland, and there may be some traveling
> issues involved, but a long time ago I read that the last aurochs were
> kept and finally killed in hunting preserves of Polish royalty in the
> earl 1600s.
>
>     Is this true, or has it been disproven???
>
>     Elizabeth