Thank you for the kind comments about the bison!
Graeme, I like your idea. But I would like to limit my work to the time after the Pleistocene; that's why I'll be making a European bison soon, called the "Wisent". Maybe you already heard about it?
Mind you, today, it's about another bull.
After a short detour in the American Plains, I first looked around Europe again and I found very old breed of cattle with a remarkable history. The Charolais live in France since the 16th century; as first over nearly 200 years in the départements Nièvre and Sâone-et-Loire, from the end of the 18th century in the whole France and nowadays in more than 68 countries on all 5 continents and under all climatic obstructions.
The Charolais - after the place Charolles - arise over the centuries as a branch of the large Jurassassen of Central and Eastern Europe, which had settled in central France in Brionnais. On the hills and in the valleys the natural premises have formed a breed that believe primarily as working animals - with the showy, muscular skeleton but at the same time peaceful, fertile and robust. Only much later, in the nineteenth century, people began to appreciate the quality of the meat, because the role as a worker makes a muscular physique that does not require much fat.
The growth is large, the frame is wide, deep and long; the muscles are strong; the animals are late maturing. The withers height of cows is 132 cm, but can also reach 140 cm, for the bulls 142 - 150 cm at the withers were measured. Cows weigh 700-900 kg, bulls 1100-1300 kg. They are monochrome white to off-white, without pigmentation. The muzzle, horn and claws are hell.
So, long talk short sense - here is the forefather of my future herd: