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| Illustration from Sigismund von Herberstein's book published in 1556 captioned "I'm 'urus', tur in Polish, aurox in German (dunces call me bison)"; Latin original: Urus sum, polonis Tur, germanis Aurox: ignari Bisontis nomen dederant |
1627
The auroch, or uru, the long-horned wild ox believed to be the ancestor of domestic cattle, becomes extinct when the last specimen dies in Poland.
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