Everything I hear how cow farmers need to take care of their stock baffles me more and more how these were able to survive for so long
A cow needs to be milked every certain period to avoid infections, bruising, death
A cow needs help with the birth of a calf, as its sometimes a process which cant be done by a cow itself
A cow builds up gasses in their stomachs, requiring punctures to avoid sickness, death
And not to mention the parasites, specific diets, and maybe some other things I wouldn’t know about
In: Biology
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chillingham_cattle
These are about as close as you get nowadays to wild cattle. It’s unknown exactly what their origin is, they may well be related to an original native species that existed in prehistoric Britain or maybe not, but I suspect that if you were to create a reserve and place a few herds of modern cattle on it you would end up after a few generations with something similar. There would certainly be issues but I think enough would make it so you could have a viable self sustaining population.
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