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“Nazi Super-Cows”. Sounds like a terrible movie idea. But believe it or not, Nazi super-cows exist. Derek Gow, the only British farmer with a herd of these cattle, was forced to put down several of them due to increasingly aggressive behavior.
Now, before we dive into the full story, let’s talk about these cattle. As much as I’d like to keep calling them Nazi super-cows, the common name for this breed is Heck cattle. They originated in the 1920’s to the 1930’s in Germany in an attempt to revive an ancestral breed of cattle called aurochs.
Needless to say, Heinz and Lutz Heck, the zoologists commissioned by the Nazi’s behind the breed, were quite successful, though the Heck cattle didn’t directly resemble the aurochs.The pair used the descendants of the wild cows to extract “wild” genes from their genomes and breed them with regular livestock. The Heck cattle averaged 20-30 centimeters shorter than the aurochs and had a bulkier build than their ancestors, much like most modern domestic cattle. Heck cattle grow about 1.4 meters and weigh around 1,300 lb. No thanks.
Now, I’m not one for toying around with nature and trying to breed extinct species back to life, but the idea itself is indeed fascinating. So now we have an idea of where the super-cows came from. Back to the story.
Derek Gow bought and imported 13 Heck cows in 2009, becoming the only farmer in the UK to own them. However, they soon proved to be much more dangerous than Mr. Gow had anticipated.
“The ones we had to get rid of would just attack you any chance they could. They would try to kill anyone. Dealing with that was not a lot of fun at al,” Gow Says, “I have worked with a range of different animals from bison to deer and I have never come across anything like these. They are by far and away the most aggressive animals I have ever worked with. Some were perfectly calm and quiet and they are the ones we have kept. The others you could not go near.”
Transporting the aggressive cattle off the farm proved to be difficult and dangerous as well.
“…to get them off the farm we used a young and very athletic young man to stand on the ramp and they charged at him before he quickly jumped out the way,” Mr. Gow explains.
The British farmer is looking to continue breeding the Heck cattle for meat. Could you imagine it? Nazi Super Cow burgers? Mr. Gow also explains the other uses the Heck cattle have:
“…each cow can produce its own weight in dung every year, which is a great source of food for insects and bugs and nutrients for the environment.”
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Given their natures why on earth rear them? An aggressive breed designed to test Nazi supermen on the various steppes and plains of a conquered europe? Yup - I'll take a herd please.
'Whats that? they might be dangerous?'.................
Even its curiosity value is a bit thin.
2015/01/07 09:07:44
Subject: Re:Herd about the latest nazi problem ...
When can we apply this technology of breeding extinct species back to life with, say, dinosaurs?
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2015/01/07 09:14:34
Subject: Re:Herd about the latest nazi problem ...
Looks like they didn't have the Reich mentality for farm animals. Odd that he's Goering to keep breeding them; he obviously hasn't learned his lesson, Heer.
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Yeah, we could get huge hyper-agressive birds with fangs. Would that be awesome?
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2015/01/07 09:45:21
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We already have then, they are called Canadian Geese.
Should look up the Cassowary now that is aggressive and is also able to kill you with its bard.
Also issue with bringing the tasmanian tiger back is it would more cloning, to bring back opposed to how these Heck cows were "created" The tasmanian tiger did not have an offshoot to breed traits back in from.
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We already have then, they are called Canadian Geese.
Should look up the Cassowary now that is aggressive and is also able to kill you with its bard.
Also issue with bringing the tasmanian tiger back is it would more cloning, to bring back opposed to how these Heck cows were "created" The tasmanian tiger did not have an offshoot to breed traits back in from.
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2015/01/07 17:19:00
Subject: Re:Herd about the latest nazi problem ...
watched a documentary about the blues, and some other stuff. honestly, all I could think was burn it with fire.
I think PETA/greenpeace wold literally gak their pants if they saw those things.
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2015/01/07 17:49:38
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Shouldn't it be a Weimar Super Cow, considering how the Nazis weren't in power in the 1920s?
The NSDAP party certainly existed in the 1920s, but they only came into power in 1933.
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As for why it would be beneficial to raise these cows,
Aurochs where the wild form of domesticated cattle. Preserving their genes is a good safeguard in the event domestic cattle ever suffered a massive depopulation due to disease or some other factor.
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Given their natures why on earth rear them? An aggressive breed designed to test Nazi supermen on the various steppes and plains of a conquered europe? Yup - I'll take a herd please.
Given their natures why on earth rear them? An aggressive breed designed to test Nazi supermen on the various steppes and plains of a conquered europe? Yup - I'll take a herd please.
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