Re: Wild cattle and oxen OBS NO MUSK-OX or BISON

From: Kel Rekuta (krekuta_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:43:45 -0500

tkavanagh wrote:

>>
>>Kalm definitely wasn't asking about Musk-ox or
>>Bison. He was talking about
>>ordinary type of domestic cows, pigs and oxen.
>
>
> On page 162 of the on-line English version, while
> speaking of "wild oxen," Kalm explicitly wrote:
> "...the American species of oxen is Linneaus's Bos
> bison."
>
> tk
>
>

That's what I thought. Inger needs to insist they are some super
survivor species of Swedish cattle. If Scandinavian cattle couldn't hack
it in Southern Greenland, why would they do any better on the shores of
Hudson Bay? Its pretty nasty there in the winter. No fodder, no shelter
from the wind, et cetera.

And Zolota, thanks for the thought of bison being Kalm's cattle. I
wasn't aware their range extended that far east to Hudson's Bay.

Kel

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