Notes and Queries, Vol. 9: Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc;; January June, 1860 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

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The Paeonian bonasus, or bison, appears to have been a species of wild ox, cognate, but not iden tical, with the aurochs. The ancient bonasus, like the modern aurochs, was confined to a single and limited tract of Europe but since, unlike its modern congener, it was not preserved in a royal forest, it became extinct. The aurochs would long ago have met. The same fate, if its race had not been perpetuated by the accidental proteo tion which it has received from the kings of Poland and the emperors of Russia. The un wieldy size of the aurochs, and its slowness of movement, would, notwithstanding its enormous strength, have soon made it the prey of men, if it had not been intentionally preserved from destruc tion; and its savage nature would have prevented it from being perpetuated in a state of domestica tion. It may he remarked that the horns of the bonasus, as described by Aristotle, resemble in shape the horns of the Indian buffalo.

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