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    $\begingroup$ Ever tried sitting on a cow? I have, as a kid. They're kinda wide for human legs. And spiny as hell. $\endgroup$
    – Serban Tanasa
    Commented Dec 18, 2014 at 19:03
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    $\begingroup$ Bison, buffalo...and the Auroch, which became extinct in the 1600s. $\endgroup$
    – Jasper Blues
    Commented Dec 18, 2014 at 20:51
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    $\begingroup$ Wet forest, swamp, and wet basin? That doesn't seem like a likely place to herd Ungulates $\endgroup$
    – Mooing Duck
    Commented Dec 18, 2014 at 23:22
  • $\begingroup$ @MooingDuck At first I thought so too. . but then we do have Carabao like this in the Philippines : rockefellernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/carabao.jpg . . . they work the swampy rice fields, which uncleared are naturally jungle. $\endgroup$
    – Jasper Blues
    Commented Dec 19, 2014 at 0:52
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    $\begingroup$ The wet basin was chosen as a reason to have bovines as the primary animal in place of horses. Equids seem to flourish in open grasslands (the African savanna, central Asia), while lots of bovids live in forests and swamps (water buffalo, wood bison, gaur). I had also read that the splayed hooves that bovids have provide better traction in mud than a single hoof, though I haven't been able to corroborate that fact. $\endgroup$
    – ckersch
    Commented Dec 19, 2014 at 14:08