The aurochs (Bos urns) appears to exist still in the forests of the western Caucasus.
It is not found in a wild state and the auffalo (bos caffer) is almost if not quite extinct in the Transvaal.
The wild Bos sundaicus does not appear to exist in the island.
Upon an artificial island in the lake traces of lake-dwellings were discovered in 1869, together with the bones of red deer, wild boar and Bos longifrons.
Veckenstedt (Ganymedes, Libau, 1881) endeavours to prove that Ganymede is the genius of intoxicating drink (thOv, mead, for which he postulates a form pi bos), whose original home was Phrygia.
