> << indian water-oxen: Bos bubalis Linnaeus / Pamaltela? / Africa and India >>
>
> There are no cattle to be found in Pamaltela of any kind. The water
> buffalo (Bubalus arnee last time I looked, but taxonomists and cladisticians
> keep changing their minds about this sort of thing) is native to Kralorela.
Wow. That knocks any parallels with african cultures _completely_ off base! It is hard to see any resemblances with any culture other than the Khoi-san without cattle or some sort of cognate. Are they completely hunter-gatherers now? How do the Kresh pull their wagons?
Also - no african Buffalo? *sulk* If my Alkothi war hippos have been nixed at least give me my buffalo! They are so much cooler than the American sort, not to mention being a heck of a lot more dangerous (they kill more people than crocs or lions every year).
> Its called 'Bison praxus' for reasons best known to the God Learners,
> but, yes, its the same as the american bison, not the Old World sort.
>
> << north american musk-oxen: Ovibos moschatus / Pent? / Canada? >>
>
> There's no mention of these (which are caprines, not bovines, trivia
> fans) in AR, but they'd most likely live in Fronela rather than Pent, though
> either is possible.
Martin Crim's (I think) Hsunchen work mentions a small musk oxen tribe in Pent near Valind's glacier. Very much under threat from the Pentans but surviving on marginal land and with a strong defensive magic.
> << cattle (extinct orox in RW, source of domestic cattle): Bos taurus Linnaeus
> / Orlanthi Land? >>
>
> Cows are found throughout western and central Genertela, although you're
> likely right about the source of the original wild ones, since that is
> indeed, where the aurochs are said to come from.
Wasn't one of the early events of the hero wars the return of the Aurochs
to Sartar (KOS?)
>
> Two you didn't mention are the gaur (Bos gaurus / Teshnos) and yak (Bos
> mutus / Shan Shan).
Well, at least I get to keep the yaks ;).
Yours,
Yak
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