Bos Collection

Camille Bos, ballet dancer, rehearsing La Grisi
Mademoiselle Camille Bos, ballet dancer at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse, rehearsing La Grisi

A long-horned European wild ox attacked by wolves.. The aurochs or urus (Bos primigenius), the ancestor of domestic cattle, was a type of wild cattle which inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa

Hunting the Aurochs
Ancient Germans hunt the AUROCHS (bos primigenius) thought to be the ancestor of modern cattle

Aurochs, Bos primigenius. Extinct. (Wild ox, Bos urus.) Handcoloured engraving after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from Edward Griffiths The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London

Brahma breed of zebu cattle, Bos taurus indicus. The Brahmin Bull in the Gardens of the Zoological Society. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Russell after an illustration by Horace S

Fragment of the Column of Marcus Aurelius, Rome, Italy. Depicting Roman legionnaires and lions in a river. Framinento della colonna Antonina

Zebu, Bos primigenius indicus
Zebu, indicine cattle or humped cattle, Bos primigenius indicus The Zebus in the Gardens of the Zoological Society. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Russell after an illustration by Horace S

Extinct bull aurochs, Bos primigenius, with stag and deer. Rappresentazione dell Uro. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Corsi from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

The yak of Tartary, painted by George Stubbs
The yak of Tartary, Bos grunniens, painted by George Stubbs. From Captain Samuel Turners Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet, 1800

Danube steppe cattle, Bos taurus var. dacicus. Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1842

Zebu or humped cattle, Bos primigenius indicus (Indian buffalo, Bos indicus). Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History

Aurochs (extinct) and American bison
Aurochs, Bos primigenius (extinct) and American bison, Bison bison. Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinzs Illustrated Natural History of Men and Animals, 1836

Yak, musk ox, wild barbary sheep (extinct) and red sheep
Yak, Bos grunniens (vulnerable), musk ox, Ovibos moschatus, wild barbary sheep, Ovis longipes palaeoaegyptiacus (extinct), and red sheep, Ovis aries

Zebu humped cattle, Bos indicus, and European bison, Bison bonasus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Sydenham Edwards from John Mason Goods Pantologia, a New Encyclopedia, G

American buffalo or bison, Bison bison, and domesticated cattle, Bos taurus. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel

Gaur or Indian bison, Bos gaurus (Gayal or Silhet cattle, Bos gavaeus). Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardines Naturalists Library

American bison or buffalo, Bison bison (Bos americanus). Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardines Naturalists Library, Edinburgh, 1836

British Kyloe or Highland cattle, Bos (primigenius) taurus. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardines Naturalists Library, Edinburgh, 1836

British shorthorn breed of cattle, Bos taurus. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardines Naturalists Library, Edinburgh, 1836

Indian ox or zebu, Bos primigenius indicus (Taurus indicus). Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardines Naturalists Library, Edinburgh, 1836

White urus, or Hamilton breed of wild cattle, Taurus urus or Bos scoticus. Extinct. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardines Naturalists

Farmer up a tree watching a buffalo fight a bull
Farmer up a tree watching an American bison fight a bull. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1857

Gayal, Bos frontalis, female
Gayal, Bos frontalis (Bos gavaeus), female. Vulnerable. Handcoloured engraving after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from Edward Griffiths The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London

American bison, Bison bison (Bison, Bos americanus). Handcoloured engraving from Edward Griffiths The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1827

Domestic water buffalo, Bubalus bubalus. (Pulo condor buffalo, Bos bubalus.) Handcoloured engraving after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from Edward Griffiths The Animal Kingdom by

Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer caffer (Bos caffer). Handcoloured engraving by Griffiths after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith of a specimen in the British Museum from Edward Griffiths The

Dwarf Zebu bull, Gambier Bolton
Dwarf Zebu Bull photogrpaph by Gambier Bolton, F Zs 553, held at The Natural History Museum at Tring

Bullocks great auk (Pinguinus impennis) egg held in the Natural History Museum at Tring. The great auk was hunted to extinction in the middle of the 19th Century. 1962.1.5 (composite image) Date: 1962

Endangered European bison in wartime, 1915
One unforeseen casualty of the war were rare European bison, Bos bonasus, also known as Wisent or Zubre. These were hunted to extinction in the wild by Germans occupying Poland

Animals at a French Zoo - Yak Bull - Yak Bull. Part of Box 209 Boswell collection - Old and New French Zoo. The yak (Bos grunniens and Bos mutus)

Buffalo, Bos bubalus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or, Complete Cabinet of the Curiosities and Beauties of Nature (1798-1802) published by Harrison, London

Grunting ox or yak, Bos grunniens.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or, Complete Cabinet of the Curiosities and Beauties of Nature (1798-1802)

Little Indian buffalo, Bos indicus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or, Complete Cabinet of the Curiosities and Beauties of Nature (1798-1802)

Water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis, and extinct auroch, Bos urus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris, France, 1816

Javan BANTENG - group (Bos javanicus javanicus). Indonesia

Banteng (Bos javanicus). Indonesia

Bandages from a calf mummy

Buenos Ayres Bullock-wagons
Illustration (p.150) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Cow and calf design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Blade of grass from a cow
Scanning electron microscope image of a blade of grass from a cows stomach (x 175 on a standard 9 cm wide print)

Dendrocide excelsea (Wedd. ) Chew in Gard. Bull. Singapore
Annotated drawing by Ferdinand Bauer of Dendrocnide excelsa (Weddell) Chew (1965)

Adult ticks from domestic cattle in East Africa
These ticks are engorged with their hosts blood. To minimise the risk of drying out, they are plugged with cotton wool and usually inverted inside jars of spirit

Bison bonasus, European bison
Illustration from Gleanings of Natural History (1758-74) by George Edwards (1694-1773)

Bos taurus, cattle
Jaw bone and teeth of the Chillingham breed of cattle. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Amblyomma hebraeum, African cattle tick
A male African cattle tick (Amblyomma hebraeum). Ticks are blood-sucking parasites wich live off the blood supply from their host

Liebig Zebu
(bos taurus) Zebus are the common cattle of much of Asia, and used for transportation of many kinds, as here in India

Domestic Yak
(bos grunniens) a domestic yak

Tibetan Yak
(bos grunniens) The yak of Tibet

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