The document discusses two extinct animals that once lived in Moldavia and Romania: the elk and the auroch. The elk, called "plotun" in Romanian, was the largest deer and became extinct after the name disappeared. The auroch was a large wild cattle that inhabited Europe, Asia and Africa but went extinct in 1627 when the last one died in Poland. People hunted aurochs for their meat, skin, and valuable horns.
2. The elk is the largest representative of the deer
family. The Romanians called it "plotun", a name
that disappeared after the extinction of this
impressive herbivore.
Pluton
3. AUROCH
Moldavia
Extint from:
1627
What was it?The auroch is an extinct herbivorous specie of large wild cattle
that inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa.The specie survived in Europe until
the last recorded aurochs died in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland, in 1627.
Why did it desappear?People killed aurochs because they had very good
horns so they cut them for the meat, the skin and their horns.