Sentence examples for extinct wild from inspiring English sources
Aurochs (Bos primigenius), also spelled auroch, extinct wild ox of Europe, family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), from which cattle are probably descended.
Some scientists, however, have posited, due to a number of morphological differences between dogs and wolves, that dogs may actually be descended from an extinct wild ancestor that likely resembled contemporary pariah dogs and dingoes.
Some dispute whether wildwood as extensive closed forest cover ever existed at all and prefer a landscape vision like that of the modern New Forest – large open areas interspersed by scattered trees and woods, with herds of aurochs (the now extinct wild ox) keeping the trees in check.
"In this paper, we reconstruct both the population genetic structure of the extinct wild progenitor of domestic horses".
The Heck horse is a horse breed that is claimed to resemble the tarpan (Equus ferus ferus), an extinct wild equine.
The Hecks were trying to breed domestic cattle that exhibited the most "primitive" characteristics in both appearance and behaviour, in an effort to breed the closest thing they could to an extinct wild cattle that used to roam the Teutonic forests called the aurochs.
Derek Gow created a stir in 2009 when he imported 13 Heck cattle – linked to the extinct European wild ox, the aurochs – and set them to graze on his Devon farm.
The RSPB reserve on North Uist is one of the few places where you can see endangered corncrakes, while elsewhere road signs warn of otters crossing, and native Eriskay ponies, once nearly extinct, wander wild.
Gunther Köhler found the species at the brink of extinction, perhaps even functionally extinct in the wild as of 1994 due to overhunting and its restricted habitat.
Zoo officials often talk about the Arabian oryx, which was once extinct in the wild and now has a wild population of a thousand, thanks to reintroduction programs, using captive animals, that began in the nineteen-eighties.
It is extinct in the wild due to excessive hunting, as the last wild Barbary lion was killed in Morocco in 1942.
