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May 13, 2008
Today, the shoulder height of a large domestic cow is around 1.5 m (5 ft). Despite this, their wild ancestors, the aurochs, were huge beasts that reached on average 1.8 m (6 ft) tall at the withers. Between 1931 and 1938, Dr. Lutz Heck, director of the Berlin Zoo, attempted to recreate the...