Pulpit (wisent)
Pulpit was the name of a bison bull that attracted great public attention in Poland in 1964 and 1965 because it migrated three times from its reserve in the Carpathian Mountains and roamed through southern Poland. Newspapers as well as radio and television stations reported on his hikes. During his wanderings, he occasionally found himself in farming villages and small towns. The best known incident is where he trotted to the cemetery in the town of Zagórze during a funeral and some of the mourners fled to trees. More typical for him, however, was going to markets, where he helped himself to vegetables at the market stalls. Schoolchildren occasionally even fed the bison bull with bread.
The Polish government was considering shooting the bull. However, this led to violent protests within the Polish population. The bull was ultimately caught and kept in an enclosure from 1965. Pulpit is still occasionally cited today as an example of the fact that bisons rarely show aggressive behavior towards people. The bull came from the lowland-Caucasus line . In contrast to the pure-blooded lowland bison ( Bison bonasus ) (so-called flatland line ), this line also has the genetic material of the extinct mountain bison ( Bison caucasicus ). The bull Pulpit is thus a descendant of the mountain wisent bull Caucasus (stud book no. 100), which was brought to Germany in 1908 and bred to lowland bison cows.
literature
- Klaus Nigge, Karl Schulze Hagen: The return of the king. European bison in the Polish jungle . Tecklenborg, Steinfurt 2004, ISBN 3-934427-46-4 .
Single receipts
- ↑ Nigge et al., P. 91