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...newly discovered ox possesses extremely primitive physical features which place the animal close to the ancient ancestral line of modern domestic cattle and as a form which probably branched off the main cattle family stem, before the bison, yak, zebu, gaur, and bantin about ten million years back, in the middle pliocene period...
...Chapman Andrews at the American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan), and running a terrific, far-flung menu of elephant, loggerhead turtle, capybara (large South American rodent), howling-monkey, armadillo, iguana (lizard), Orinoco crocodile, diamond-back rattlesnake, stewed octopus, argus pheasant and muntjac ("barking-deer") in Borneo, sambar and gaur (deer) and manis (scaly anteater) in India...