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Many chicks intentionally abandon the nests in which they hatched to seek out temporary or full adoption by foster parents.
If they moved into nests containing fewer or younger chicks than their previous homes, then they could also receive more food by more easily outcompeting smaller adoptive siblings.
It could simply be that evolution has endowed not the parents with the ability to discriminate their own chicks from strangers.
half as many of their own chicks grow to fledging age than the gulls that did not adopt.
Biologist Kevin Brown of York University thinks that the costs of better chick discrimination could be even higher.
If the cost of rejecting one's own offspring is greater than accepting an alien chick,
But in all of those cases the adoption has always been within species. Storks adopt stork chicks,
Cows, for example, do not just graze randomly. By avoiding areas contaminated with faeces, they gobble up far fewer parasitic lungworm larvae.
The same is true for sheep. Researchers at the University of Aberdeen, UK showed in experiments how sheep overwhelmingly preferred plots uncontaminated with faeces to those containing it.
They were unable to distinguish between faeces infected with parasites and uninfected faeces and so operated according to an avoid all the poo rule.
whether the mice truly prefer being near the smelly stuff Their first finding was that, like sheep,
In a way, the mice were the opposite of the sheep. Neither animal could distinguish parasitised from healthy droppings
yet sheep responded by playing it safe, while the mice took a gamble. The crucial question is why?
and livestock are generally at a much lower risk from predators than their wild counterparts,
frogs boiled in oil and fermented goat dung. Greeks from the 4TH CENTURY BC preferred rendered pig fat
while the Romans used a mixture of honey and bran followed by cork and ashes.
the five-year project took cells from organic cows, cultured them in a nutrient solution to develop muscle tissue,
and Margaret Atwood's Oryx & Crake (along with its sort of sequels The Year of the Flood and the about to be published Maddaddam)
We are also living in close proximity to domestic creatures like pigs, chickens and ducks.
and their crops and cattle spread into unoccupied land giving most people a richer diet.
The accidental role of cow dung in historyin the absence of anything like real science to guide them,
Cow dung. The earliest glazes, dating from the late fifth millennium BC and found in the Near east,
Matin reasoned that dried cattle dung, which contains significant amounts of both alkalis and salt (chloride), was used widely as a fuel since the beginnings of animal domestication in the eighth millennium BC.
copper scale, calcium carbonate and the ash of burnt cattle dung. This too produced a nice, shiny (albeit slightly paler) blue glaze.
 Who can stop these adorable pigs? Jesse Hirsch Modern Farmer 25 april 2013 Feral pigs are overrunning America.
Radioactive feral pigs are threatening Europe. Destroying crops, spreading diseases.""Once a wild pig is full-grown,
it is invulnerable to almost all forms of predators angry alligators being one possible exception Â. Boars are smart, fast, hard to hunt."
"We're not going to shoot or trap our way out of this. Lethal removal just doesn't take the numbers that you need to control the population.
 The mind of a con manyudhijit Bhattacharjee New york times 26 april 2013 Admired Dutch psychologist admits to faking a whole career's worth of academic research."
Patients were being asked to infect themselves with live pig whipworm eggs to see if the parasites alleviated any of their symptoms
43%of those given pig whipworm eggs improved, compared with only 17%who received placebos.
and pig and human whipworms from Wormtherapy and Autoimmunetherapies, either travelling to Mexico or receiving mail-order worms from Lawrence.
 Testing stagenowadays, most researchers investigating helminthic therapies have abandoned bloodsucking hookworms in favour of pig whipworms,
as they have evolved to colonise swine and therefore cannot complete their life cycle within humans. Patients must re-infect themselves every few weeks
"Pig whipworm is very kosher, Â Weinstock says. At New york University, immunologist P'ng Loke found monkeys suffering from chronic diarrhoea not only got better after receiving a dose of pig whipworms
but also had significantly different gut microbes post-infection. He is currently enrolling ulcerative colitis patients to repeat the experiment in humans.
He has enrolled another 15 patients for a longer trial with pig whipworms, the results of which are expected at the end of this year.
Coronado Biosciences, a Massachusetts-based company, hopes to have results from two large studies being carried out in the US into the use of pig whipworm eggs to treat Crohn's disease by the end of the year.
whose four goats had been killed by the lions.""The lions come again and again. Â Over the past several years, residents of the Kitengela plains have had an enormous problem.
and snacking on their form of convenience food oe local residents'cattle, goat, and other animals.
For many of the residents, livestock is their only livelihood, and they will go to any lengths to protect them oe including poisoning
or killing the hungry beasts. As a result of conflicts like this, Kenya has been losing on average 100 lions a year,
But that didn't stop him at the age of 11 from wanting to find a way of protecting his family's livestock.
by reducing the number of attacks on livestock in areas with the lights, he says.
Richard experimented with a few ideas before finally coming up with the lights oe including building fires out of cow dung
primarily to make space for cattle and soybean production. But the soil exposed by this clearing is only productive for a short period of time
Males, called bulls, make casual visits to various groups over time in search of a cow who might mate with him.
In order to select the mating partner the bull literally finds the one that best suits his taste oe by sampling their urine.
"When the bull nuzzles her rump, she must produce a stream of urine if he is to catch some in his mouth and savour it,
If a cow is attracted particularly to a visiting bull, she may simply decide to urinate as he walks past her, no prodding required.
and invest in more livestock-or hives. Shelf lifealthough beekeeping is a traditional oe and relatively low-tech business oe the organization is beginning to bring it into the 21st Century.
young Thomson's gazelles (Gazella thomsoni) make their own kinds of risky decisions. When a group of gazelles detects nearby stalking predators such as cheetahs or lions,
zoologist Clare Fitzgibbon discovered that instead of running they sometimes approach and follow the predator, sometimes for more than seventy minutes.
and if the gazelle make clear their awareness of the predator's presence, it may delay its next hunting attempt.
-and-ambush strategy oe gazelle do not follow hyena, despite the fact that more gazelle die from predation by hyenas than by cheetahs or lions.
While it isn't only the juveniles who follow their predators oe adults do it too oe the younger gazelle face a much higher risk.
The probability of being killed while following a cheetah is one in 5, 000 for mature gazelle,
but only one in 417 for teenagers. Despite the incredibly high risk, predator following has persisted over evolutionary time.
it provides the adolescent gazelles with an opportunity to learn more about their predators, allowing them to better predict future encounters with cheetahs and lions.
Human teenagers don't die at the hands (or jaws) of predators, like adolescent otters or young gazelle,
Take the domestic chicken (Gallus gallus), a bird that many think of as having more to do with barbecue sauce than with arithmetic.
Researchers discovered this by strapping stilts made of pig hairs onto the legs of the ants.
African buffalo (Syncerus cafer) are large bovines distantly related to domestic cows that can be found grazing in forests, grasslands and swamps across the African continent.
but one day I noticed that the cows adopt a particular stance after the shuffling
Some species including rats, goats, rhododendron, wheat and eucalyptus are found around the world while many others have become rare or vanished.
Meanwhile, we've been artificially boosting the populations of certain select species, such as cows, dogs, rice, maize and chickens oe most
whereas rats and goats that eat the food of rare tortoises are being eliminated. In other places,
 And when a dead dolphin calf was spotted by another group of scientists near the Canary islands in April 2001,
By the third day, the calf was floating on the surface, and by the fourth day, the calf was started to show signs of decay.
While they did not attempt to recover the body the researchers noted that whenever even a seabird attempted to approach the floating calf,
it would immediately be chased away by the other dolphins. Â As this group of dolphins was under continuous human observation,
Both of these observations suggested that they were responding specifically to the death of the calf.
There, on the fifth floor, one lab is trying to catch everything from fraudulent fish, to mislabeled toy cats, to illegally prepared sheep placenta in traditional Chinese medicine.
He also argued that new species of mammal oe including oxen-are discovered still occasionally by scientists."
"If animals as large as oxen can remain hidden into an era when we would expect that scientists had rustled every tree
While in 2008, tests on hairs collected in India showed they came from a species of Himalayan goat.
including a low-cost nutcracker for farmers in Morocco and a solar-powered incubator for guinea fowl in Burkina faso.
Many small-scale Ugandan farmers own a few cows, which are milked twice a day to sell locally or to larger dairies.
So, instead, they turned to another product that cows produce in abundance. A small farmer with five cows produces a lot of dung,
says Kisaalita. You can ferment the dung, and use a fraction of the biogas to run the milk chiller.
the small farmer could milk her cows in the evening, chill it, and then add more milk in the morning.
And if you don't chill milk within four hours of milking the cow the bacteria grows to a point where it just goes bad.
Individual farmers breeding livestock or keeping chickens, when multiplied by millions, have caused biodiversity changes in
and Turkey, Syria and Iraq, for example. Dams don't just block water flow. They also prevent fish migrations up-and downstream,
and used to be found anywhere from Siberia to Bali to Turkey. But hunting and habitat encroachment by humans have over the past century reduced their range by more than 90
So, while dairy cows are endangered far from, the last auroch, their wild ancestor went extinct in Poland in 1627.
despite our voracious impact on everything from giant sloths to North american bison. And that is because of the recent huge population expansion by us and our chosen creatures.
armed guards and compensation for villagers whose cattle are eaten by tigers. Habitat conservation is key to preventing the animals'extinction in the wild.
the sheep. The team had found a way of replacing the nucleus of a sheep's egg cell with a nucleus from an adult ewe's cell,
and yet still trick the egg into dividing as normal. After the hybrid egg cell began dividing,
From dogs to cows, scientists rushed to clone a menagerie of animals using Wilmut's technique, known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT.
The first, Noah, a threatened species of ox from Southeast asia called a guar, was born seemingly healthy on 8 january 2001.
Scientists at the American biotechnology company Advanced Cell Technologies who had helped pioneer cloning in cattle,
shuttled nuclei from gaur skin cells into cow eggs and then implanted the embryos into cows.
However, Noah died two days later of an infection unrelated to the cloning process. And like the guar, other attempts to clone endangered species through somatic cell nuclear transfer tended to be one-offs.
What is more, the technologies that scientists are hoping to use have mostly been developed for use in laboratory animals and valuable livestock only.
or livestock grazing, has played a big role in the decline of entire civilisations, including in Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome and Central america, according to University of Washington soil scientist David Montgomery.
In many places in the world, livestock dung is the only fertilizer available, but it is becoming scarcer because,
I only have to do it once to drill and sow. Considering that it costs him 9. 9 gallons (45 litres) of fuel an hour for 14-hour days over 2 weeks
We use the sheep to provide manure for the fields, which halves our fertiliser use,
In the next field, Ashby was resting his wheat field by growing turnips for the sheep,
Gages breed of man/mice lab creations are known as chimeras, not unlike the geep (half-goat, half-sheep) or mule (half-ass, half-horse.
a game that involves catapulting birds at elaborate fortresses constructed by evil pigs. But Angry Birds, a hit game by Rovio, a small Finnish company, is one of the unlikeliest pop-culture crazes of the year
Angry Birds, in which the birds seek revenge on the egg-stealing pigs, is meant to be played easily in the checkout line
and a sketch from an Israeli TV SHOW about a birds-and-pigs peace treaty was popular online.
along with a line of stuffed birds and pigs. It also hopes to spin the franchise into a movie or childrens TV SHOW.
The Mapo Center for Dementia perches at a busy crossroads of old and new, near a university and a shop selling naturopathic goat extracts.
These include rooftop garden oefloral therapy, art classes making realistic representations of everyday objects, music therapy with bongos sounding oelike a heartbeat.
#How the Most Symbolic American Bird Got the Name Turkey Turkey For a species of bird found only in the forests of North america and so symbolic of a U s. holiday,
the humble turkey sure has an oddly Eurasian name but have stopped you ever to consider why?
has yet to be corrected making turkeys one of the most curiously named birds on the planet.
called a Guinea fowl, became known as oeturkey cock throughout England. And, when British settlers arrived in the New world
and encountered a large woodland bird that looked a bit like the Guinea fowl fowl theyd grown fond of eating back in England perhaps out of confusion that the two were the same species,
it was shortened to simply turkey. Another factor that helped perpetuate this unusual choice of names occurred
turkeys became known as peru in Portuguese. Sixteenth century importers in Portugal were apparently under the impression that that was where the birds originated from.
the name of turkeys in the Turkish language is even more geographically off base; their called Hindi, short for oebird from India.
In like fashion, the common wildebeest on the African Serengeti are less vulnerable to attack by lions
The research group on evolutionary genetics has discovered that a gene for the enzyme PGIC has been transferred into sheeps fescue (Festuca ovina) from a meadow grass, probably Poa palustris,
oeif someone looks like a chick and wants to be called a chick even though theyre not, now they can be one.
Ms. Hartsock, 23, diligently typed notes. A hardworking student who maintains an A average, she was frustrated by the online format.
and Burger kings Cheesy Angus Bacon cheeseburger and Tendercrisp chicken sandwich. oeboth featured two slices of American cheese, a slice of pepper jack and a cheesy sauce,
Relentless Marketing Every day, the nations cows produce an average of about 60 million gallons of raw milk,
It also began paying farmers to slaughter some dairy cows. But at the time, the industry was moving toward larger, more sophisticated operations that increased productivity through artificial insemination, hormones and lighting that kept cows more active.
In 1995, the government created Dairy management Inc, . a nonprofit corporation that has defined its mission as increasing dairy consumption by oeoffering the products consumers want,
Agriculture, livestock, fishing and the food industry are the greatest source of carbon dioxide water pollution, but in both cases the effects of human excretion (through breathing or due to waste water treatment) are next on the list.
¢Rooster Testicles In Taiwan, rooster testicles are considered a good source of protein and they are
but they are prized as a natural substitute for Viagr¢Cow Urine For about US $3 per bottle,
A sacred animal in India, urine from the cow is distilled before it is blended with traditional Indian herbs and medicinal plants.
An 11-year study of a population of wild sheep located on a remote island off the coast of Scotland that gauged the animals susceptibility to infection may give new insight into why some people get sicker than others when exposed to the same illness.
The research revealed that the sheep population over time has maintained a balance of those with weaker and stronger levels of immunity
led the study of wild Soay sheep on the remote island of Hirta in the St kilda archipelago, about 100 miles west of the Scottish mainland.
natural molecules produced by the sheeps immune systems to fend off infections such as influenza or those caused by parasitic worms.
The sheep whose blood contained the most antibodies lived the longest, the researchers found. These animals also were most likely to survive harsh winters.
they failed to produce as many offspring each spring as other sheep. Sheep with lower levels of antibodies tended to die earlier, they found,
but also gave birth to more lambs each year. Viewed in terms of breeding and, ultimately, evolutionary success, the differing groups of sheep were equally successful in that the longer-lived
but less fertile sheep and the shorter-lived but more fertile sheep produced about the same number of progeny over the course of their lives.
The overall balance, the researchers said, could help explain why immunity varies so much among individuals.
The tendency to form either strong or weak responses to infection ran in families in the sheep
the researchers also found. oethis genetic basis means that natural selection has the chance to shape the trait,
poultry, eggs and produce that can cost two or three times as much as conventional food. And expensive antibacterial soaps and washes, cutting boards and meat thermometers are promoted as tools of the trade for a germfree kitchen.
LEARN TO LOVE WELL DONE Cooking thoroughly is the best way to eliminate harmful bacteria from meats and poultry.
and poultry on one cutting board, using another for vegetables. Clean both with warm soapy water after each use.
Even so, remember that you need to handle anything organic meat, poultry, produce the same as nonorganic, said Shelley Feist, executive director of the Partnership for Food safety Education, a coalition of industry and advocacy groups.
and other surfaces that come into contact with raw meat and poultry. Thoroughly cook meats poultry and eggs.
For more safe handling and cooking tips, go to the partnerships Web site at www. fightbac. org.
4. Coyotes for eating cows, sheep and other livestock, and preying on household pets in suburban areas;
5. Pythons which are capable of eating goats and crocodiles and could eventually pose a major threat to children, pets and livestock.
Rounding out the bottom five are killer bees, starlings, mountain pine beetles, brown tree snakes and Asian mongooses.
#Mysterious Bearded Antelope Discovered in Kenya oebearded Antelope Photo by Paola Torchio Veteran wildlife photographer Paolo Torchio made a bizarre discovery while visiting Kenyas Masai Mara
a mysterious oebearded antelope. While one expert suggests the animal might only be suffering from hypertrichosis, a condition once known as werewolf syndrome,
The animal has all the markings of a Thomsons gazelle. oei would say its a younger female,
and the man in charge of maintaining Thomsons gazelle populations for all of North america. Except this oebearded antelope is covered with a strange, thick coat of hair.
Torchio noted that the animal was spooked not easily by other gazelles and visa-versa. However, it was spooked by Torchio himself.
After fifteen minutes of photographing the bizarre creature it up and ran away from him.
Gazelles are one of the fastest animals on earth, running at speeds up to 55 and 60 mph.
#The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation was created in 1982 by a small group that originally came together as a an informal support group for problems that were the result of traumatic experiences at petting zoos
The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation is the result of their dream. Through its programs and workshops, individuals from all walks of life have been able to live happier
without the ever-present ghosts of their personal goat traumas. Some have made even such progress that they have been able to put their traumas completely behind them
The effects of a childhood goat trauma vary widely from person to person, depending on the severity of their trauma.
and insomnia could all have origin in a goat trauma. The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation is here to help anyone who has suffered a traumatic run-in with goats.
If you think that the foundation can help you please contact one of their counsellors.
#Insects Sense Danger on Mammals Breath When plant-eating mammals such as goats chomp on a sprig of alfalfa,
When plant-eating mammals such as goats chomp on a sprig of alfalfa, they could easily gobble up some extra protein in the form of insects that happen to get in their way.
The researchers allowed a goat to feed on potted alfalfa plants infested with aphids. oestrikingly, 65 percent of the aphids in the colonies dropped to the ground right before they would have been eaten along with the plant,
#Zimbabwean Farmer Shocked As Cow Gives Birth To A Pig Could it be. Satan? A Zimbabwean farmer was left stunned
when his cow gave birth to a piglet. The farmer, Mr Tinos Mberi of Chatsworth in Masvingo eastern highlands of the country said he could not believe his eyes
He said it was impossible for a pig to mate with a cow. oethe whole body
and size was that of a piglet. The nose and mouth was like that of a pig,
except that it did not have a hairy body, said Mr Mberi. He said it was difficult to attribute the strange occurrence to anything other than witchcraft oei think it is the work of some black magicians.
He said this was the first time that his cow has given birth and he had expected not what he got.
although it was rare. oeit was deformed simply a calf that looked like a pig. Some deformed calves may look like monsters
and we also have some that are known as bulldog-calves. These may look like a bulldog but its all due to deformities,
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#Saving the Planet by Eating Insects and Other Creepy Crawlies A Chinese woman selling scorpions on stick in Beijing,
The raising of livestock such as cows, pigs and sheep occupies two-thirds of the worlds farmland
shows that farming insects produces far less greenhouse gas than livestock. Breeding commonly eaten insects such as locusts,
crickets and meal worms, emits 10 times less methane than livestock. The insects also produce 300 times less nitrous oxide, also a warming gas
and much less ammonia, a pollutant produced by pig and poultry farming. Being cold-blooded, insects convert plant matter into protein extremely efficiently,
#Milk from the Offspring of a Cloned Cow Being sold in British Stores A British dairy farmer said he was using milk from a cow bred from a clone Milk from the offspring of a cloned cow is being sold in British shops,
The FSA said it believed that the practice of selling milk from cloned cows and their offspring was illegal.
The farmer said that as part of his daily production he was using milk from a cow bred from a clone.
or identified as being different from produce derived from a cow born naturally. The farmer
made the claim to the International Herald tribune. He also said he was selling embryos from the same cow to breeders in Canada.
The cows being used to produce the milk started life in the United states as embryos created from the eggs of cloned cows and the sperm of normal bulls.
and flown to Britain where they were implanted into host cows. The offspring produce higher quantities of milk than normal cows.
In 2007 it was disclosed that eight cloned cows were born this way on British farms, including one in Shropshire.
Research has identified concerns for the health of animals produced as a result of cloning. There is some evidence of premature births and deformities.
and chairman of Chick-fil-A. Cathy entered the restaurant business in 1946, when he and his brother, Ben, opened an Atlanta diner known as The Dwarf Grill (later renamed The Dwarf House).
In 1967, Cathy opened the first Chick-fil-A restaurant. Today, Chick-fil-A is the second-largest quick-service chicken restaurant chain in the U s. with more than $3. 2 billion in sales in 2009.
As of February 2010, there are more than 1, 480 Chick-fil-A restaurants in 38 states and Washington,
D c. Cathy has led Chick-fil-A on an amazing record of 42 consecutive years of annual sales increases.
Today, Cathy devotes much of his time to philanthropy. William Kelloggkohls Net Worth: $1 billion William Kellogg got his start in the retail business as a buyer for Federated Department stores.
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