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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version. Kiva 78(1):37–60. Reitz, Elizabeth.

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