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The Breeding-Back of the Aurochs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2009

Heinz Heck
Affiliation:
Director of the Tierpark Hellabrunn, Munich
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Every lover of nature regrets that man has exterminated so many kinds of animals or that these have lost their means of living and become extinct through changes brought about on the earth's surface to meet Man's increasing needs.

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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1951

References

page 117 note 1 “Steppe zebra” is a term coined by Heinz Heck to denote the horse-like zebras—Quagga, Burchell's, Chapman's, Boehm's, Grant's—now (with the exception of the extinct Quagga) generally known as Burchell's Zebra.—Translator's note.

page 122 note 1 For full information of the European Bison or Wisent see S.P.F.E. (now Fauna Preservation Society) Journal, No. LIX.