Caucasus (wisent)
The Caucasus was a bison bull , which is considered to be the founder of the lowland-Caucasus line . He had the wisent stud book number 100.
After the poaching after the First World War, the Caucasus was the only remaining representative of the mountain wisent ( Bison caucasicus ). He was brought to Germany in 1908 and bred there with cows of the lowland bison ( Bison bonasus ). In the 1920s, bison breeding was primarily focused on maintaining shape. Because only twelve bison were ever included in the reconstruction of a bison population, the species or subspecies affiliation was initially given little attention. Since there has been a sufficiently large population again since the 1950s, when breeding bison, emphasis is now placed on keeping the only surviving population of the lowland bison pure-blooded. Accordingly, bisons, whose ancestors included the Caucasus, are kept separately and form a separate breeding line as the lowland-Caucasus line. The bisons of this line that are bred in Poland are given a name that begins with the syllable "Pu", provided they have individual names.
One of the best-known descendants of the Caucasus is the bison bull Pulpit , who migrated from his reserve in the Carpathians in 1964 and 1965 through southern Poland. During his wanderings he found himself repeatedly in peasant villages and small towns, where he stole vegetables from market stalls and had school children feed him bread.
literature
- Małgorzata Krasińska and Zbigniew Krasiński : The Wisent , The New Brehm Library Volume 74, Westarp Sciences, Hohenwarsleben 2008, ISBN 978-3-89432-481-0 .
Single receipts
- ↑ Krasinska et al., P. 22