Game Reserve
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Keeping ice age animals appropriate to the needs of the species is the main effort of the game reserve in the Neanderthal. The animal park was founded in 1935 by the Nature Conservancy Society.
Aurochs, tarpan (wild horse), and bisons are living in the large and spacious outdoor enclosures. All of them became extinct in Europe some hundred years ago.
And yet they are ancestors of our contemporary cattle and horses, which in turn means, that these modern animals must still carry the genetic code of the extinct animals within them. Crossbreeding of unspoilt breeds finally re-established animals that are very similar to their ancestors.
