Are you familiar with the television show Finding your Roots? Following the paper trail and supplementing these facts with DNA analysis, ancestors of celebrities and people of renown are discovered.
Well, if you did the same for an animal breed associated with Texas, you’d end up in Spain.
This fine fellow, photographed a few years ago at a St. Louis County Park, is a modern adaptation of cattle brought from Spain to America during the 1500’s. Survival was the name of the game — and small changes from generation to generation resulted in this sturdy cattle breed. They are able to graze on plants other cattle (and humans) consider weeds. They have also developed resistance to several diseases.
Intelligent and gentle, humans must remember to make accommodation for the wide-spread horns. Typically four feet from tip-to-tip, they have been known to grow to double that distance.
Would you like to encounter one early in the morning?
A police detective in the later-in-life romance, Fine Lines, finds the incident memorable, but not pleasant. He’d prefer to interview human witnesses and inspect crime scenes. Click on the link to find the complete book blurb. https://bit.ly/49FtvjF
