I managed to put a female to my stately aurochs bull. The girl has a shoulder height of about 150 cm and is thus considerably smaller and more elegant than her "master in the forest". This pronounced dimorphism, however, was a characteristic of the race, as evidenced by skeletal excavations.
The original distribution area of the Aurochs contained large parts of the temperate and subtropical Eurasia, the Aurochs also occurred in parts of India and North Africa, where however each other subspecies lived.
The Aurochs has been mystified as the most important hunting prey of man ever since. The oldest cultural references in Europe can be found in the cave paintings in Lascaux or Chauvet, where the Auerochs is depicted alongside other ice age wild animals. The Aurochs can also be found on North African wall paintings and stone engravings.
Even in ancient times the Aurochs enjoyed a high place. Thus Ur-horns often were used by the Romans as hunting horns. Aurochs were also among the wild animals which were caught for fighting in the colossi. Caesar reports in "De Bello Gallico" the Germans made a great effort to catch and kill them in pits. Young men then presented the horns to the people which gave them great honor.
With increasing rarity of the Auerochsen hunting for the wild cattle became a privilege of the nobility and signs of high status. The result is known: in 1627 the last animal of this species died.