This week with Arlene and Jeff:
..."Oh, crap. Even at this distance, those things look impossibly huge," Kayla said as she realized just how big the aurochs were, or at least thought she did. As they drew nearer, she upped her estimate even more.
They were still out a couple of hundred yards, but basically continued to parallel the river as Jasmine guided the crawler toward the herd. From a distance, the aurochs appeared to be rough-looking cattle on steroids - lots of steroids. Both the sexes had horns, and their appearance was similar, with the largest bull a third larger than the largest female, and his horns were correspondingly bigger.
The horn was comprised of a robust hub atop the head that gradually changed into branches leading out for two-and-a-half feet on either side. Each side of the massive horn then swooped forward and appeared much less cumbersome but more deadly than did the horns of a Texas longhorn. The auroch horns were much thicker and more graceful looking as well. It didn't take a genius to understand that the bull, with his massive build and strength, could be a deadly foe. With the aurochs, even the females would put any Earth bull to shame.
The big bull stood over seven feet at the withers and weighed slightly north of two tons. According to scientists, no auroch bull had been this big on Earth since the Middle Pleistocene, where the bulls weighed up to 3310 pounds. Here on 2214, the auroch - or their cousins - had thrived, seemed plentiful and were even bigger with some of the bulls weighing in at two tons or more.
It didn't take long for the big bull to take notice of the strange thing that made a noise he had never heard while belching foul-smelling fumes into the air. His curiosity piqued a couple of minutes later, and he turned away from the herd to come a few feet in the machine's direction before stopping to bellow and paw the ground. He would not put up with this thing invading his territory...
Have a goodun;
Roust