Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-107.167.112.74-20170228120401/@comment-25936766-20170305131554

GreyStark wrote: Aye, they could just say it was a aurochs (the animal that was domesticated into cattle) or something Grey, multiple bovines were domesticated. Not just cows, but also buffalos, bisons, and some thing called Banteng. You should be more specific than that.

Aurochs are the ancestor of the domestic cattle (though not all domestic cattle). Though for ancestors, they survived longer than one would expect: The last one died in 1627.

At least 2 domestication events occurred with the Aurochs. One with indian subspecies which led to Zebus, basically cows with humps made of fat. Quite ugly actually. The other one with Eurasian subspecies which led to taurine cattle.

......Though in the end, Adam still looks nothing like an Auroch. In fact, he looks less like an Auroch than he looks like a bull.

That aside, as I was writing this I found some pics about the Banteng. Basically a southeast asian cattle species, also present in Australia.

Their horns are small, curved back-and-upwards. While Adam's horns are still nothing like them, comparatively they are closer to a Banteng than to a more conventional western bull.