auroch

• Derek Gow, a farmer and conservationist, who has imported the half-ton animals, said the Nazis wanted to recreate the auroch to evoke the power of the "runes, folklores and legends of the Germanic peoples", and Heck cattle were used as a propaganda motif. —  Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph
• The auroch, once the companion of mammoths, still survives, but apparently owes his present and precarious existence to man's care. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860
• But why not say the same of the auroch, contemporary both of the old man and of the new? —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860
• If all Our breeds of cattle came from one stock why not this stock from the auroch, which has had all the time between the diluvial and the historic periods in which to set off a variation perhaps no greater than the difference between some sorts of domestic cattle That considerable differences are often discernible between tertiary individuals and their supposed descendants of the present day affords no argument against Darwin's theory, as has been rashly thought, but is decidedly in its favor. —  Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism
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