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I can't believe how large those horns are!
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Started conversation Mar 11, 2019
If I came across one of those long-horned beasts, I would be on the horns of a dilemma. 
How on earth did early man get close enough to these critters to milk them?
I can't believe how large those horns are!
Willem Posted Mar 14, 2019
Hi Paulh! Have you ever been close to a wild bison?
I don't think ancient humans ever milked any of these! And in the case of the aurochs, I'm sure domestication needed to have been well advanced before the option of milkage was practical...
I can't believe how large those horns are!
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Mar 14, 2019
I'm imagining a guy with a milk pail singing the 'Toreador Song'. 
I can't believe how large those horns are!
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Mar 14, 2019
I will spare your ears by not giving a link to that song. There's even a musical-theater adaptation (lyrics by Hammerstein) that I will also not inflict on you.
But seriously, those horns would be a prime exhibit for the walls of any modern big game hunter. How did the animals even manage to walk through the forest without getting their horns caught in the trees? 
I can't believe how large those horns are!
Willem Posted Mar 17, 2019
These old things simply didn't live in forests! They lived on open grassy plains or savannahs with trees far from each other.
I can't believe how large those horns are!
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Mar 22, 2019
I guess they would have to live there. 
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