For example the Norse god Thor (known in German as Donner) flew in a chariot drawn by two goats
 In the last 20 years the forests of the upper headwaters of the Xingu have been cleared for cattle ranching
#American Running of the Bulls Not Much of a Thrill (Op-Ed) Wayne Pacelle is the president and chief executive officer of The Humane Society of the United states (HSUS.
A decade ago I was on-site as an observer for the first American Running of the Bulls in a small town outside of Las vegas
and danger of the Pamplona Spain event where bulls run down the cobblestone streets and head into a fighting arena the American spectacle was an incredible snooze.
The promoters of the Nevada event released cattle from a pen. The animals trotted or walked down a dirt track as attention
It was an embarrassment to all the bulls comporting themselves with more dignity and smarts than the people South Park got it just right
when it broadcast this piece on the American version of the running of the bulls.
That said if the event gets too boring the promoters of bull running events planned for this year might try to increase the risk quotient
I expect it will be about as entertaining as people charging into a cow pasture. But whether it's boring
Pacelle's most recent Op-Ed was Butter-Cow Prank Does Nothing to Help the Cause of Animals.
This article was adapted from Walking of the Bulls which first appeared on the HSUS blog A Humane Nation.
and yellow bricks with alternating images of dragons and bulls carved in relief. Â A reconstruction of it that incorporates surviving materials is currently in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Vorderasiatisches Museum in Germany.
and the main gate in the larger inner wall of the city with a 48 meter-long (158 feet) passage was decorated with no fewer than 575 depictions of animals (according to calculations made by excavators) noting that these oepictures of bulls
or New Stone age farmers who migrated to Europe from the south between 5500 B c. and 4200 B c. owned domestic plants and animals such as sheep goats cattle and swine.
and did not have pigs sheep goats or cows all of which were introduced to Europe with incoming farmers in about 6000 B c. researcher Ben Krause-Kyora an archaeologist
and the second by Melanie Joy called Why We Love Dogs Eat Pigs and Wear Cows (Conari Press 2011).
#Are Pit Bulls Really Dangerous? Police in Nassau County N y. are searching door-to-door for two pit bulls that went on a bloody rampage attacking a teenage boy and three women during a 30-minute period Wednesday (Feb 13.
One literally went for my leg and the other was trying to jump on top of me but
But do pit bulls deserve their reputation as vicious attack dogs? An overwhelming amount of evidence suggests they do.
and Reconstructive Surgery found that almost 51 percent of the attacks were from pit bulls almost 9 percent were from Rottweilers
In other words a whopping two-thirds of the hospital's dog-attack injuries involved just two breeds pit bulls and Rottweilers.
and Pathology revealed that pit bulls Rottweilers and German shepherds were responsible for the majority of fatal dog attacks in the state of Kentucky.
And a 2011 study from the Annals of Surgery revealed that attacks by pit bulls are associated with higher morbidity rates higher hospital charges
The authors of that 2011 study go on to say Strict regulation of pit bulls may substantially reduce the U s. mortality rates related to dog bites.
Pit bulls and the law Some states and cities have acted on the research: The state of Maryland has determined that pit bulls are inherently dangerous and all owners are liable for any injuries they cause according to the Baltimore sun. Even the U s army has acknowledged that pit bulls are high-risk dogs;
they are prohibited therefore in some military housing units. Pit bulls join several other breeds on the list of dogs that are recognized as more likely to attack
and cause significant injury: The Centeres for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed data and found the following breeds are implicated in a majority of dog-bite fatalities:
versus pure breeds injuries versus fatalities pit bulls consistently rank at the top of the list for attacks and by a wide margin.
Paying the price for pit bulls As a result of the overwhelming evidence against pit bulls home owners and landlords often must pay significantly higher insurance premiums
if they have a pit bull or other recognized bad dog breed on their property.
Dog bite Incidents Fans of pit bulls are quick to assert that a dog's propensity for attack depends in large part on its owner
and there's considerable evidence that owners of pit bulls and other high-risk dogs are themselves high-risk people.
There's a myth that pit bulls have locking jaws that seize up when biting. Though pit bulls have strong jaws
and like most dogs will hold onto their prey after biting it there is no evidence that a pit bull's jaws are anatomically different from those of other breeds.
Even fans of pit bulls acknowledge the breed is different from other dogs. I tell people right off the bat
if you want a dog-park-type dog a dog you can just run off-leash please do not get a pit bull Ami Ciontos founder
At least 26 elephant carcasses including four calves were counted in and around the Dzanga Bai on Thursday (May 9) WWF officials said.
#Bison Could Be reintroduced to Alaska North america's largest land animal will roam the Alaskan wilderness once again
 Wood bison a subspecies of the more familiarâ plains bison once lived throughout Alaska
Several groups have been trying to reintroduce wood bison for more than a decade. Some Alaskans have rejected the idea of introducing an animal listed under the Endangered Species Act for fear that this might interfere with gas and oil development the Dispatch reported.
Under the new plan the Alaskan bison would be designated as a nonessential experimental population that isn't necessary to the survival of the species
Wood bison are larger than their plains cousins with adult bulls weighing up to 2000 pounds (900 kilograms) or more according to a statement from the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Now there are 10000 free-ranging wood bison in Canada including about 4500 in seven free-ranging disease-free herds the agency noted.
 Wood bison have already been introduced to Russia where scientists are trying to establish breeding populations of the animalsâ according to the Edmonton Journal.
Wood bison are the closest living relatives to the steppe bison which went extinct about 5000 years ago.
There's also the possibility that milk has been watered down or mixed with cow milk which is not healthy for the infant Keim said.
The effort required industrial farming cattle drives and tens of thousands of workers. No Martians.
Then he looked at the breeds of cattle found in ancient Egypt and how much meat one could get from each animal to figure out how many animals would be required to provide the protein.
He said the 10000 workers at the site he studied in Giza consumed 105 cattle and 368 sheep or goats every 10 days.
Herds big enough to supply that many animals would contain an estimated 21900 cattle and 54750 sheep or goats
Half came from cattle most of the rest from sheep and goats. How the animals got to Giza is controversial;
Redding thinks they came in long cattle drives. Other think they were shipped in on the river.
and took a census of the cattle goats and sheep and they reported back to the king's office so the bureaucrats knew exactly what was available
#Butter-Cow Prank Does Nothing to Help the Cause of Animals (Op-Ed) Wayne Pacelle is the president and chief executive officer of The Humane Society of the United states (HSUS.
or the quality of their lives hanging in the balance some fool (who claims to be an animal advocate) defaced the Butter Cow at the Iowa State Fair.
However the study did not test blood from cattle sheep and goats in the middle East so it's not clear
if the virus is circulating in these animals in this region as well the researchers said. The MERS virus has been found to grow in cells taken from bats the researchers said.
and did not provide proper care for his cattle failing even to remove dead animals allowing their carcasses to attract predators.
Other animals like sheep and cattle can also acquire the parasite by ingesting the infected cat feces.
Bovids including cattle sheep goats antelope and gazelle flourish during this period. Cave lions Sabre-toothed cats cave bears giant deer woolly rhinoceroses and woolly mammoths were prevailing species of the Quaternary period.
Without the dinosaurs plant life had an opportunity to flourish during the Cenozoic era. Nearly every plant living today had its roots in the Cenozoic era.
In their new study Uno and his team tested the radiocarbon dating technique on the tusks of two elephants that died in 2006 and 2008 as well as elephant and hippo teeth monkey hair and oryx horn.
Since the 1950s when researchers cloned a frog scientists have cloned dozens of animal species including mice cats sheep pigs and cows.
or cows to cloning people. For instance cloning an animal requires that researchers first remove the nucleus of an egg cell.
In one experiment Lanza and colleagues cloned a species of cattle called banteng and it was born at twice the size of a normal banteng.
It had to be said euthanized Lanza. The extremely high rate of death and the risk of developmental abnormities from cloning makes cloning people unethical Lanza said.
#Cow Herds Could Heal Degraded Land, Scientist Says Livestock populations have long been vilified as major culprits behind desertification.
It involves keeping cattle in dense herds and moving them frequently so that the land is overused not
#Critically Endangered Pygmy Hogs Slowly Reintroduced to Wild Researchers are breeding and releasing critically endangered pygmy hogs into the wilds of northeast India.
The breeders then act a bit like hog school marms for the species Porcula salvania. Â The process takes place in a gradual phased approach allowing the hogs opportunities to learn to feed
and forage to defend themselves from predators and acquire general survival skills while socializing with other members of the group.
and cattle reports of human deaths are rare. New mexico ranchers have been advised to sanitize their livestock tanks to prevent further wildlife deaths.
Ray Coppinger of Hampshire College and others have speculated that as humans began forming more permanent settlements over the last 15000 years a new canine food source appeared that led directly to the evolution of the dogs we know
Causes of deforestation Deforestation is done typically to make more land available for housing and urbanization timber large scale cash crops such as soy and palm oil and cattle ranching.
and portion and steer toward largely plant-based items she said. At Chipotle one could order a burrito bowl with rice beans peppers and onions and no sour cream.
Removing a calf who is to become veal from his mother might be agony for the mother for her calf is all she has at the moment.
She cannot it seems anticipate having another calf in the future but even if she could have thought this this would not in any way justify removing her present calf.
Furthermore if my companion Jethro's pains are interminable for him then causing him pain would be more serious than causing pain for someone who would understand that it would only last for five seconds.
which butchers tied a bull to the stake and unleashed dogs to kill it since this supposedly made the meat tender.
Any dog who killed bulls was called a bulldog but in general it helped for the dog to be low to the ground with strong jaws to lock onto the bull.
Wide flared nostrils and a protruding mandible helped the dog breathe. All these traits shaped the bulldog into
And pet owners might not even know that the stick is made from an uncooked dried bull penis. In a small study researchers examined a sample of 26 bully sticks also known as pizzle sticks manufactured in the United states and Canada.
While the source of the bully sticks is no secret many pet owners don't seem to be aware that the treats are made from the raw penises of bulls
or steers a survey by the research team showed. A 20-question online poll completed by 852 dog owners from 44 states
Among the finds were dozens of goat-size gazelles. Most of the bones were found on-site suggesting their carcasses were brought whole to the site.
The site also contained the cracked skulls of larger antelopes similar in size to wildebeests.
Even today the Serengeti is littered with wildebeest-size heads Ferraro said. Scavengers like hyenas will consume all the rest of the carcass
because unlike chickens pigs and cows insects are not warm-blooded Sorkin said. As a result they do not have to expend energy to keep themselves warm
Brilliantly colored birds like golden pheasants and temminck's tragopans posed for pictures too as did haired yellow-throated martens golden takins and wild boars.
#Escaped Goat Runs Amok in Brooklyn If you're a goat escaping from a slaughterhouse try to avoid running into a former goat herder.
That's the lesson one runaway goat learned the hard way after a late-night breakout from a slaughterhouse in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn N y. according to WABC News. At about 1 a m. ET
I know I see a goat coming around my way galloping toward me one area resident told CBS New york. A police officer also spotted the beast along crowded Atlantic avenue
Panicked the goat ran through the neighborhood banging his head against doors in an effort to evade the cops scrambling after it according to the Daily mail. The police chased the goat into a parking lot across from Interfaith Medical center where the animal encountered Seydou Ndiaye a parking lot attendant and as luck would have it a former goat herder
Video of Escaped Goat Running from Officers I told them'Do not harm the animal it's an easy animal.
and tried to capture the wily goat but the escapee proved too fast even for his expert hands.
Finally Ndiaye grabbed the goat by the horns and helped NYPD officers lift it into the back of a patrol car
which took the goat to a local animal shelter reports WABC. Though goat meat doesn't appear commonly on North american menus it's very popular in many immigrant neighborhoods especially throughout Latino Middle Eastern Caribbean and Asian communities according to the Washington post.
Known as mutton or chevron when the meat comes from an adult animal (and cabrito or kid when the goat is young) the delicacy is rapidly gaining favor among chefs and foodies The New york times reports.
Part of the appeal of goat meat comes from its health benefits the Times reports. Though the meat contains more protein than does beef it has less fat than chicken
and therefore is cooked usually slowly with some kind of added moisture as in stews according to the USDA.
And recent studies suggest goats display an unusual degree of social bonding: Not only do the animals pick up accents from one another demonstrating an advanced degree of vocal learning
but mother goats can also pick out the calls of their kids even a year after being separated from them.
Don't underestimate the goat. But what of our escapee goat? In true Brooklyn fashion the streetwise goat was rewarded for his moxie
and rather than face his end in a slaughterhouse the animal will be sent to an animal sanctuary in upstate New york WABC reports.
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#EU to Ban Certain Pesticides to Help Bees Bee populations are declining rapidly in Europe as they are in North america.
Third-generation Kansas hog farmer Nathan Smith said he is convinced the disease is airborne. He lost about 15000 piglets this summer or about $1 million worth of livestock.
and railways with their associated embankments and cuttings form impassable barriers to animals such as the saiga antelope for
Only 20 years ago a million saigas roamed the steppes before undergoing a spectacular collapse of more than 90 percent in the 1990s leaving only about 50000 animals.
thousands of animals predominantly females and calves died. There are international efforts under way to ensure that the saiga survives it is protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna
and Flora (CITES) the convention that regulates international trade in wildlife and the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) under
which those countries where the saiga roams have concluded a specific international agreement. There is a similar story in Mongolia
Here it is Mongolian gazelles and khulans (wild asses) that are confronted with fences that they cannot pass;
and incorporating crossing points along railways with cattle guards to stop animals erring onto the tracks would allow animals to migrate unimpeded.
#Feral Pigs Going Hog-Wild in US Feral pigs are becoming a wild problem in the United states. The wild hogs can now be found in three-fourths of U s. states
 There are currently more than 5 million wild hogs in the United states according to the U s. Department of agriculture.
After finding and killing a hog family officials will intentionally leave one pig alive usually an adult female.
which the surviving hog will seek out the AP reports. Image Gallery: The Most Destructive Invasive Species Multiplying hogs Texas may have the most wild hogs of any U s. state
and the situation is expected to worsen despite the $7 million per year that Texans spends to keep the animals'numbers down the AP reports.
If a feral-hog sow produces a dozen piglets 13 survive goes an old joke according to the Avalanche-Journal.
and norms of a so-called exceptional contemporary culture by introducing individual and named animal beings cows turkeys dolphinsâ chimpanzees
An analysis of the enamel on the fossilized teeth provided further evidence that it subsisted on grass like today's zebras wildebeests
Cheetahs prey on warthogs gazelles antelopes rabbits porcupines and even ostriches and they catch their prey by chasing it down.
Emperors and other royalty hunted gazelles with trained cheetahs in the 16th century. Cheetahs are very vocal.
and their babies called calves are born around 6 feet (1. 8 m) tall. Calves can grow up to an inch a day.
Like a human fingerprint each giraffe's coat is unique. Some subspecies have patterns that look like oak leaves
Giraffes are ruminants like cows and their stomachs have four compartments that digest the leaves they eat.
Females give birth to a single calf about 14 months after they mate. When a giraffe calf is born it drops to the ground head first from about 6 feet (1. 8 meters) high.
The fall surprises the calf and makes it take a big breath but doesn't really hurt it.
The calf can walk after about an hour and it can run with its mom just 10 hours after it's born.
After they're a few weeks old calves join a group of young giraffes called a crã che.
Giraffes can live up to 25 years in the wild and longer in captivity. Where giraffes live:
or sieges with a territorial bull that's in charge of the group During the dry season though bigger groups will gather around watering holes.
Mothers give birth to a single baby hippo or calf either on land or in shallow water.
and it needs its mom's protection from lions crocodiles and adult male hippos which sometimes attack calves in the water.
Ecologically kangaroos are Australia's equivalent of bison deer and cattle in North america. Kangaroos get much of the moisture they need from their diet
Like cows kangaroos have chambered stomachs to help with digestion. They regurgitate grass and shrubs and chew them again before swallowing.
Leopards eat anything from carcasses fish and reptiles to mammals such as baboons antelopes warthogs hares and rodents.
Males (called bulls) have huge antlers that they shed each winter which are different from deer antlers in their shape.
but they do form strong bonds between mother and calf. One or two calves are born in May or June per female.
Newborn moose have fur with a reddish hue and they stay with their moms for a year until the next babies are born.
 Calves grow rapidly and gain about 3 pounds (1. 4 kg). The lifespan of an average moose is about 15 5 years.
Zebras commonly mix herds with antelope adding extra protection against predators. Â Conservation status: Least Concern to Endangered Both the Grevy's zebra
#Gangly Gerenuk Born at Denver Zoo The Denver Zoo welcomed an adorable baby gerenuk named Blossom this month.
The shy skinny antelope was born on March 6 to mother Layla and father Woody and the family can now be seen in the zoo's gerenuk exhibit.
Blossom has begun just venturing out into her yard and thoroughly enjoys it as she runs
Blossom is also Layla's first calf and she is proving to be a very attentive mother frequently making sure to clean
The word gerenuk appropriately means giraffe-necked in the Somali language. These long-necked creatures which are native to eastern Africa can weigh between 60 to 100 pounds (27 to 45 kilograms) and stand about 3. 5 feet (1 meter) tall on four legs.
But their uniquely designed hips and pelvises also allow these antelopes to stand up vertically on their two hind legs to reach leaves
Blossom is the first gerenuk born at the Denver Zoo. Her parents were paired through the Species Survival Plan of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
There are thought to be about 95000 gerenuks in the wild and the species is listed as near threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
These antelopes are world-class hiders which means they can endure some pressures of hunting in their native home
But the way the ice breaks or calves is still somewhat mysterious. Glaciers are constantly in motion she said.
Based on animal bone findings nutritional data and other discoveries at this workers'town site the archaeologists estimate that more than 4000 pounds of meat from cattle sheep
and goats were slaughtered every day on average to feed the pyramid builders. See Photos of the Unearthed Giza Pyramid Site This meat-rich diet
and goats 8000 cattle and 1000 pig bones he wrote in a paper published in the book Proceedings of the 10th Meeting of the ICAZ Working group'Archaeozoology of Southwest asia and adjacent Areas'(Peeters Publishing 2013).
and other non-meat sources while the other half would come from sheep goat and cattle he estimated.
and the cattle's low milk yield during that time Redding said. Combining these requirements
and other protein sources with the ratio of the bones (and the amount of meat and protein one can get from an animal) Redding determined about 11 cattle
and 37 sheep or goats were consumed each day. Â This would be in addition to supplying workers with grain beer and other products.
and herders In order to maintain this level of slaughter the ancient Egyptians would have needed a herd of 21900 cattle
and 54750 sheep and goats just to keep up regular delivery to the Giza workers Redding estimates.
These animals also needed herders likely one herder for every six cattle and one herder for every 50 sheep or goats based on ethnographic observations.
For instance the overseers who lived in a structure the archaeologists call the north street gatehouse got to eat the most cattle
and those living in an area called the galleries where the everyday workers lived ate mainly sheep and goats.
Cattle is of course the highest-status meat he said noting that it appears far more frequently then sheep
or goat in tomb scenes and that pigs never appear in tomb scenes. The settlement located adjacent to the workers'town dubbed eastern town wasn't as rigidly planned as workers'town
A gene from a spider that helps the arachnid produce silk for example could be inserted into the DNA of an ordinary goat.
but that exact process was used to breed goats that produce silk proteins in their goat milk.
#Goat Sacrificed for Chicago cubs Curse Forest Preserve police in Cook County Ill. found a grisly discovery this week:
a decapitated white goat tied to a tree near the Indian Boundary Golf course. That was strange enough
Inside was a decaying goat's head. Officials are investigating whether the headless goat is connected to the goat head delivered to Wrigley Field last week.
Who would send a severed goat head to Wrigley Stadium? A confused Satanist? An angry mobster trying to send a threat
but unable to find a horse? No it is a response to a supposed Billy goat curse that dates back to 1945
when a man named Bill Billy goat Sianis had a pet goat (named Murphy) that was refused entry to a Cubs game.
Offended by the affront according to legend he cursed the club with the words The Cubs ain't gonna win no more!
despite many fan attempts over the years to lift the curse (some of them involving goats).
Belief in the Billy goat curse set the stage for what happened in 2003 when a Cubs fan named Steve Bartman reached for
The choice of a goat in the Cubs curse is ironic since it is a literal embodiment of the scapegoat goat that in ancient times was chosen to bear the burdens of villagers'sins
and was led then out of town never to return (or sacrificed). 13 Spooky Superstitions & Traditions Explained Curses spells
So is the Billy goat curse real? It might be real in one way: Curses sometimes work for the same reason that placebos sometimes work:
Either way the sooner the Cubs win a championship the sooner goats can rest easier.
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