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...years ago, zoologists imported American bison cows, bred them with aurochs bulls. The hybrid offspring are to be bred in turn with full-blood aurochs, giving three-quarter blood animals. Through successive generations the temporary American bison strain could be practically bred out, its virility merely tiding over the true Europeans. Like American bison, the aurochs has long legs, massive shoulders covered in winter with shaggy dark-brown hair, convex forehead. Both species make fine rugs, steaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aurochs | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

...young, high-bred Holstein bull, en route from Pennsylvania to Porto Rico (object: paternity), arrived last week on the Staten Island shore of New York Harbor in a big strong crate on a motor truck. The truck went aboard the ferryboat Nassau. The motion of the ferry excited the bull. It hooked at the crate's slats, then hurled its 1,200 lbs. against the end boards, burst through, charged the truck driver and the ferry's brass-buttoned mate. All passengers and the mate fled to the top deck, leaving the bull snorting and plunging below. Came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bull Dive | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

...finer strains of Siamese fighting fish are products of artificial selection, bred for stamina as well as fighting prowess. With good fish a fight will last for six hours. Unpedigreed ones are exhausted in 15 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Ferocious Minnows | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...first-rate fighters, majority of which come from the aquariums of ten well-known breeders, are all offspring of winners. After a fish has lost a battle he is bred no more but spends his declining days training small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Ferocious Minnows | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...childhood, fondly renewed acquaint ance with their clandestine friends Calamity Jane, Fearless Frank, Catamount Diamond, Sitting Bull. Younger fry read wonderingly of the swaggering, snarling, laughing outlaw of South Dakota's Black Hills, tried to picture his tight-fitting habit of black buckskin, his black "thorough bred steed," his broad black hat with "a thick black veil over the upper portion of his face through the eyeholes of which gleamed a pair of orbs of piercing intensity." Thrilling indeed to New Yorkers was it to follow the band of masked riders through the Black Hills, into stage coach holdups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Prince of the Road | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

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