Taken from 'Creation' magazine Vol. 29 No. 1 2006 Just an Ox- Northwestern University News and Information, 09/2006
'The kouprey - an ox with dramatic, curving horns - was discovered in Cambodia in 1937. It was recognized as a new species, and hailed as one of the 20th century's most famous discoveries. The kouprey (which means 'forest ox' in the Khmer language) is now the national animal of Cambodia, and fears for its extinction saw it become an 'icon' of Southeast Asian conservation.
Now the authors of a genetic study published in the Journal of Zoology 'present compelling genetic evidence that the kouprey may never have existed as a wild, natural species.' They compared kouprey DNA with DNA from a Cambodian wild ox, the banteng. The results show the kouprey may have originated as a domestic hybrid, between banteng and zebu cattle, that later became wild.
"The kouprey has acquired a rather romantic, exotic reputation," said Gary Galbreath, one of the study's authors. "Some people would understandably be sad to see it dethroned as a species."
This finding fits with the biblical creationist view that the various breeds of cattle around the world, including the American bison and the Tibetan yak, notwithstanding the different species names biologists assign to them, are all descendants of the same original created 'kind' (Genesis 1:24-25). DNA studies will reveal species belonging to other created kinds.'
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