Domesticated 10,500 years ago in Mesopotamia, the wild Aurochs has since disappeared from the face of the earth. But its descendants - oxen, cows and bulls - continue to accompany man on five continents. In Turkey, at the archaeological site of Çatal Höyük, the first evidence of the animal's taming has been discovered, and a veritable "bull civilization" for Neolithic man. In the north of the country, a nomadic people continue to transhumance each summer with their herds, an element of cohesion between men. In Portugal, cows are still used to work the land. In the United States, cowboys in Oklahoma breed both the old Longhorns, testimony to the conquest of the Far West, and more modern breeds, stars of the intensive breeding that accelerates global warming. In France, primitive and confidential cattle varieties are making a comeback, promising sustainable breeding and a reconnection with nature.

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Chapters
▷ 0:00:00 - Intro
▷ 0:01:48 - In Turkey, where the domestication of the wild Aurochs, ancestor of the bull, begins
▷ 0:04:50 - Traditional animal husbandry in Yanikli, a village in Turkey
▷ 0:07:45 - In Artvin bullfights in the wild, an ancestral tradition
▷ 0:10:40 - Man's domestication of cattle
▷ 0:16:45 - In Soajo, Portugal, grazing with the help of cows
▷ 0:21:00 - Sistelo, a steep, rocky landscape shaped by the cachena
▷ 0:28:09 - In the USA with Longhorn ranches on the Texas plains
▷ 0:39:20 - The cattle business and the consequences of intensive livestock farming
▷ 0:44:58 - A return to ancient breeds, for greater harmony between nature and man. The farming experience in Nouvelle-Aquitaine
▷ 0:51:08 - Credits

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At the dawn of time, their hoof prints mingle with those of Humans. Step after step, century after century, the great bovine family has accompanied humankind. As essential partners on our greatest territorial conquests, they continue to change the world at our side even today.

In the beginning, 18 million years ago, there lived a tiny, shy, forest-dwelling horned mammal. All alone, through the laws of evolution, this small antelope becomes the ancestor of the Aurochs, now extinct, which turned humans from the status of hunter-gatherers to that of breeders. Then the ox, yak, buffalo and zebu followed. These descendants are now pivotal elements in many cultures across the world. And against a background of species disappearing from the Earth, they are becoming the biggest land mammals.

From their wild forms to the multiple domestic breeds they produced, via the selective hand of humans, the bovines have thus gone side by side with our civilizations throughout our History. This series takes us along their trail.

Original title: Moo! The Epic Horns – The Ox and the conquest of the plains
A film by Xavier Lefebvre

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