There you go with that holothetic logic again. Species die out because their niche collapses, or they are run out of it by another species.
Perhaps I should try a different approach. Many moons ago, cows were running around free and happy being eaten by wolves and humans alike (we were hunters back then, and nomadic). Then something terrible happens. The wild cows' niche begins to collapse, and they are dying off through starvation and other means, oh no! Some moons later, humans decide they're tired of running the fuck around for food, and they invent agriculture. As they begin to cultivate plants, they still have to hunt for meat sources. After awhile of this, humans begin thinking, why don't we cultivate meat in a similar manner to these plants? Except you can't grow meat out of the ground. Wild cows, who at this point are just getting ass fucked by a diminishing niche to fill, are like, "hey, we're getting butt fucked out here with no niche to fill, and it looks like you have a mighty fine niche that we could fill up just perfectly!" So they collaborate much like a snoop dogg and dr. dre track. Boom you have the domestication of cows. To say that humans caused the extinction of wild bovine is absurd.
Oh and wild cows do exists, their population is in the hundreds, and can only be found on one Continent.
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