Famed Herdsman Curator Jim Zijcek, owner of the show business legend, two nosed Daisy Mae,
has been quoted as saying, "Yeah, but those zoo guy's don't know bull about cow's". I would like to rebut that with this picture.
In 1981, a gaur was born at the Bronx Zoo after gestation in a Holstein cow, one of the first successful interspecies embryo transfers involving a wild animal. The male calf grew up to enjoy a successful career as a herd bull, fathering offspring at the Buffalo Zoo.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Flossie--Bronx Zoo
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Wade G. Burck
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At the time the birth was pretty cool and the Gaur cattle became an important part of "Wild Asia." Could be wrong, but I think Gerald Durrell used to display several "antique" cattle breeds from the British Isles in his park on the Isle of Jersey.
Ben
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