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Show Cattle Become Wild on Alaskan Island Kodiak, Alaska. Three hundred and fifty shorthorn cattle browse over the mountainous surface of tiny Chilikof island, 200 miles out in the northern Pacific ocean from Kodiak. More than 40 years ago the Alaska Commercial company, a development concern long since extinct, stocked the Island with a few head of tame cattle for experimental purposes. On the little isle with a surface of only 20 square miles, the cattle have degenerated de-generated from inbreeding and have become thoroughly wild, but the herd continues to thrive. Alaskans say the experiment at least has proved that cattle can be grown in the region. |