The saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) was described first from skulls found in a Vietnamese forest reserve1, but the elusive antelope has rarely been seen alive.
Little is known about its range or population, which probably numbers in the low hundreds. Conservationists are now planning to trawl tropical leeches for saola DNA.
the Annamite mountains that straddle the country s border with Laos. A more precise estimate of the antelope s range would help to target conservation efforts,
Gilbert, his colleague Mads Bertelsen and their team had fed goat blood to medicinal leeches (Hirudo spp.
After killing the leeches over the course of several months, the team identified goat DNA in every one of them.
Genetic material from the critically endangered Saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) was present in one powder; and boxes marked as bear-bile powder
and more than three-quarters included DNA from animals not listed on the packaging, such as water buffalo, domestic cows and goats."
when cattle are infected with a common liver parasite. The liver fluke Fasciola hepatica was known already to affect the standard skin test for btb,
because the test is less sensitive in cattle infected with the fluke1. Researchers tested milk from dairy herds across England and Wales for antibodies against F. hepatica, an indication of infection,
"Cattle carcasses are inspected in abattoirs and we would see evidence of TB in the slaughtered animals
The authors of the Nature Communications study hypothesize that cows display fewer symptoms because the fluke alters their immune response.
Control relies on testing cattle for btb before they are moved between farms; animals that test positive are destroyed
and allow better control of infected cattle, but this poses its own difficulties. Farmers can keep cattle away from damp fields that are home to the fluke s snail host,
but treating infected dairy cattle is complicated. In 2010 the European union (EU) banned most flukocide drugs because they leave toxic residues in milk.
The milk from cows that receive the remaining two allowed drugs is undrinkable for three days after treatment.
Badgers have been blamed for spreading btb between farms, and after a fraught debate the UK government last year announced a badger cull in England.
when infected cows are found later, he says.""We have queried frequently the accuracy of testing,
an immunologist  at the Royal Veterinary College in Hatfield says there could be implications beyond cattle.
In 2009, it applied the guidelines in approving a GE goat that produces a blood-clotting drug in its milk.
and a hog engineered to excrete less-toxic manure. Members of Congress have voiced their fears about such frankenfish,
which was sponsoring the environmentally friendly hog, backed out of the approval process. Last month, the experimental hogs were put down.
Aquabounty, the GE salmon company, based in Maynard, Massachusetts, fears that it, too, may have to pull its product
The Takarkori shelter and others nearby are home to vivid and colourful rock art depicting cattle, some with full udders,
and even pictures of people milking cows, but these images are nearly impossible to date precisely.
Archaeologists have also found fragments of domestic cattle bones at these sites but these do not indicate
They may even have grazed their cattle up and down mountains, depending on the season. Mark Thomas, a geneticist at University college London, calls the latest work"a very exciting finding.
Risk assessment of US agro-biosafety lab found wantingan independent panel reviewing the dangers associated with establishing a high-security laboratory for studying animal diseases in the heart of US cattle country has found that the government
which affects cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals, would have devastating consequences for the US cattle industry were it to emerge in domestic herds.
Congress ordered the DHS to make changes and tied the NBAF s funding to a revised risk assessment
used for freezing semen for the artificial insemination of cattle in the highlands. By commandeering one tank,
Santiago had pigs and goats. Pinta had goats, but only for 20  years. Espa  ola had goats for probably 100  years,
she says.""That s what makes Galapagos so much fun. One of the most fascinating populations lives around Wolf volcano at the northern tip of the island of Isabela.
Over the past decade, Adalgisa Caccone, a geneticist at Yale university in New haven, Connecticut, and her colleagues have been unpicking the ancestry of this mixed-up population.
reducing milk and meat production in cattle by 8%.In addition, 27%of livestock in developing countries showed signs of current
Farmers and ranchers can currently use ABC loans to buy cattle and remove tree stumps from recently deforested land.
why shouldn t I allow the rancher to have more heads of cattle per hectare as well?
Officials act to secure cattle-plague virusrinderpest, a devastating cattle disease, has not been seen in the wild for a decade,
Rinderpest is as deadly to cattle as highly pathogenic H5n1 avian flu is to chickens. In past decades, outbreaks ripped through herds and wiped out up to 90%of animals, often leaving famine,
cattle don t catch measles and humans don t catch rinderpest. Understanding why this is so could provide insight into the pathology and basic biology of viruses,
whether vaccines can be developed against another related virus, the sheep and goat disease called peste des petits ruminants,
which badgers can transmit to cattle (see Nature 490,317-318; 2012) but it will now take place no sooner than next summer.
the researchers the butting of sheep, goats and bison.""The lesions we were seeing were strikingly similar to those that we often see on the skulls of modern mammals that ram heads,
The team found that bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) charge each other head on; that mountain goats (Oreamos americanus) bump one another in the flanks;
and that Bison bison bison) wrestle with their horns. On the basis of these examples, Peterson and Dischler speculate that the high-domed pachycephalosaurs with parietal injuries were side-bumping like mountain goats,
and that the frontal injuries are indicative of bison-like wrestling.""It could be that we are seeing two different species bashing in different ways,
but it could also be a single dinosaur species where juveniles and adults exhibit different bashing behaviours,
says Andrew Farke, a palaeontologist at the Raymond Alf Museum of Palaeontology in Claremont, California.
In one case, James Murray, another geneticist at the University of California, Davis, was told in 2003 that the USDA had rejected his proposal to develop a goat that produces milk rich in human lysozymes enzymes that fight diarrhoeal disease
Van Eenennaam once hoped to engineer a cow that produced milk rich in omega-3 fats,
The agency now funds her work on conventional breeding techniques to create dairy cows without horns, sparing farmers the danger and expense of removing them.
Murray moved his goat project to Brazil, where the government funds his research; the childhood diarrhoea that the goats milk is intended to treat is a serious problem in the north of the country.
And China invested nearly $800 million in transgenic pigs, cattle, sheep and crops between 2008 and 2012, says Ning Li, director of the State Key Laboratories for Agrobiotechnology in Beijing.
including a fast-growing carp and cows that produce milk with reduced allergenic potential. However, a Chinese researcher who asked to remain anonymous
it is a menace that infects their cattle with bovine tuberculosis (TB). The disease, caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis,
and can infect cows through direct and indirect contact, and years of research and tens of millions of pounds have gone into studying
cattle are screened routinely and infected animals are destroyed. And, uncomfortable as it is for animal-lovers, killing large numbers of badgers does help to reduce levels of bovine TB.
He adds that controlling cattle movements and increasing TB screening on farms would have a greater impact.
One of those animals, a cow, secretes milk that lacks an allergy-inducing protein because researchers accurately blocked its production using the technique of RNA interference1.
For years, researchers tried to remove the allergy-inducing milk protein beta-lactoglobulin from cow's milk
They inserted DNA encoding a version of this microrna into the genome to create genetically modified cow embryos that they hoped would grow into cows without the allergen in their milk.
Out of 100 embryos, one calf yielded beta-globulin-free milk.""This isn t a quick process,
That's why it has taken so long to succeed in making an allergen-free cow, he says.
and cows can now be thought of as big mice, but we are moving in that direction,
Wagner says he has tasted not the milk from his special cow because he s not permitted to under New zealand law."
milk from the cattle that they had begun to herd. Peter Bogucki, an archaeologist at Princeton university in New jersey, was in the 1980s among the first to suspect that cheese-making might have been afoot in Europe as early as 5
He noticed that archaeologists working at ancient cattle-rearing sites in what is had now Poland found pieces of ceramic vessels riddled with holes, reminiscent of cheese strainers.
Discovery of goat facility adds to antibody provider's woesa herd of 841 goats has kicked up a stir for one of the world s largest antibody suppliers after US agricultural officials found the animals including 12
A tip-off led inspectors on 31 october to the remote barn, where they found the additional goats,
including the subject 841 goats. The company says that it intends to resolve the dispute
and some but not all of the sick goats are receiving appropriate medical treatment and monitoring
says Mark Springer, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Riverside. For example, grouping animals according to their anatomy alone puts physically similar species such as pangolins, anteaters and aardvarks in the same tight group,
but Springer says that the lack of genetic data for extinct species adds uncertainty to their position on the tree,
Scientists coaxed a clone of an extinct ibex from Spain to birth from a special hybrid goat.
in 2009, the FDA approved a goat that makes an anti-clotting drug in its milk.
because we will have increasing TB in our cattle, increasing TB in our wildlife, and that will cause spillover of TB to other livestock, to potentially domestic animals and potentially to humans.
That includes cattle movement controls, increasing biosecurity, development of vaccines and control of the wildlife reservoir.
and showed the effect that sustained removal of badgers can have on reducing bovine tuberculosis in cattle.
Whether those vectors are cattle or badgers and the susceptibles are cattle or badgers doesn t matter.
It s the badger-cattle interface we need to understand. And if we understand that well,
then we can start to manage it. I would also point to vaccines as well. Vaccines, at the end of the day, are going to be
Clearly reducing wildlife populations and killing cattle is not going to actually produce the elimination that we re really striving for.
We re already moving as rapidly as we can towards getting a vaccine for cattle.
This isn t just about badgers and cattle. It s about badgers cattle and farmers. And other members of the public as well they have choices to make.
We have to understand those social dynamics as much as we have to understand the epidemiological dynamics of the disease.
and some farmers will trade cattle out of the high-probability TB areas into the low-probability TB areas,
when the deadly cattle disease was eradicated. The ban was enacted as a temporary measure to safeguard against accidental
the cause of a deadly cattle disease that was declared eradicated in 2011 and has been off limits for study ever since.
In its heyday, the disease the only one other than smallpox to be eradicated from nature killed hundreds of millions of cattle, mainly in Europe, Asia and Africa
and goats might also protect cattle against rinderpest. Led by Michael Baron, a rinderpest researcher at the Pirbright Institute in Pirbright, UK, the project,
if Baron proves that PPR vaccines can protect cattle against rinderpest, it would provide an elegant way around such political issues:
the number of corn crops and cattle fields which currently account for the majority of water usage in the US are expected to multiply well into 2040.
and cattle production collected annually by the US Department of agriculture. Whereas farmers are using water more efficiently, the researchers found,
they are also dedicating more and more land to corn and cattle. Because corn is a highly water-intensive crop,
and cattle feed extensively on corn, raising both in this region puts the aquifer at risk of depletion.
The animals, a primitive breed called Soay (Ovis aries), are known for their diminutive size and their agility on cliffs.
Food-borne illnesses are not always home-grownscottish cows have a bum rap. For decades, the local cattle have been prime suspects behind the country s outbreaks of drug-resistant,
food-borne illnesses. But research now suggests that humans and imported foods are the real culprits.
They found that bacterial strains infecting humans were largely distinct from those found in local cattle,
mostly cows, then compared them with 111 strains collected from people and animals in other countries.
Lance Price, a genomic epidemiologist at the George washington University in WASHINGTON DC, says that it is not surprising that Scottish cattle are not the source of Scottish outbreaks,
a different telescope, says Kepler scientist William Welsh of San diego State university in California. Kepler s drift could be minimized by keeping it pointed in the same plane in which the craft orbits the Sun. But that presents a complication.
offered up by Welsh and his colleagues, the craft would continue to stare at this original star field to search for Jupiter-sized planets.
but Welsh suggests that it might also be possible for Kepler to add statistical significance to Earth-sized candidates for
And David Hogg, an astronomer at New york University, believes that, over the course of many months,
says Hogg.""We re in a real quandary. We just don t know what Kepler can do.
Like Welsh, Fabrycky wants Kepler to zero in on planetary systems with long orbits, for which the full cycle of these transit-timing variations has not yet been seen.
Asian unicorn A rare antelope-like animal called the saola has been caught on film for the first time in 15 years.
The saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), sometimes nicknamed the Asian unicorn is endangered critically, and probably only a few hundred remain.
and cattle fodder have increased slightly in recent years. The trend is encouraging for food production,
Only in the 1970s did researchers realize that a fungus living in symbiosis with tall fescue grass was responsible for making cattle grazing on infected pastures ill.
A report delivered in November by the US Geological Survey s Interagency Grizzly bear Study Team describes a resilient and healthy bear population that has adapted to the loss of pine nuts by eating more elk and bison
Male scent stimulates female goats fertilityresearchers had ascribed this'male effect'to chemicals known as primer pheromones a chemical signal that can cause long-lasting physiological responses in the recipient.
the male effect in goats and sheep, and a similar effect in mice and rats, where the presence of males can speed up puberty in females,
in the cocktail of male goat pheromones that activates the neural pathway that regulates reproduction in females1.
The researchers fitted the goats with hats that absorbed their neck odours for a week.
The researchers found that male goat pheromones are synthesized generally in the animal's head skin,
and placed them on the goats for a week to collect the scent. Analysis of the gases collected identified a range of compounds, many
the brains of female goats showed a sudden increase in the activity of the gonadotropin-releasing hormone (Gnrh) pulse generator the neural regulator of reproduction.
When presented to the female goats on its own, the chemical elicited a similar, albeit weaker, response,
Peter Brennan, a physiologist at the University of Bristol, UK, says that the work will be useful in husbandry in goats and other ruminants, such as sheep,
because it was seen irrespective of the mating experience of the female goats. The main benefit of the work, says Takeuchi,
The group is now looking to find similar pheromones and pathways in other economically important livestock animals, such as sheep and cows
Gibberish papers The publisher Springer will remove 16 computer-generated nonsense papers that it had published in its subscription database,
Last week, Nature revealed that Labbã had informed privately Springer of the problem. He had contacted also the US Â Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE),
and eating an elk calf in a manner that also turned my stomach as it would of any other compassionate person.
Bà ¥rd Ylvisã Â¥ker and Vegard Ylvisã Â¥ker the folks behind Ylvis describe the vocalizations of various common animals from cats to dogs to ducks to cows
Pig cow sheep rooster duck horse--these are farm animals which in America's collective agrarian past were members of the household.
It would be awkward to teach your young child that the cow goes moo the frog goes croak
They were one of six teams at Mccarren Park hoping to win Red Bull Creation an annual build-off based on a surprise theme.
North street Labs took home only cartloads of Red Bull soft drinks and leftover tools but the team s tree did attract musicians:
Why don't cattle ranchers get the collective ire of the American people? Because it doesn't fit the agenda.
In the west ranchers set barbed wire to hold their cattle and this in effect set up their property boundaries.@
They let their cattle just roam free. Luckily the cattle are not a consideration for the land of the moon.
I think the real goal would be to mine Helium3 if possible. But if the homesteaders find water somewhere in the depths of the moon too I feel water found on the moon would be worth like gold
A grizzled maverick of an engineer named David Hall designed the lidar that Google uses.
They drove teams of horses herds of goats drifts of sheep. Animals Smith argues are autonomous.
Advocates like to say that there is no technical reason the new Mercedes needs hands on the wheel to steer through a turn.
First that the longer a cow has been lying down the more likely that cow will soon stand up;
and Second that once a cow stands up you cannot easily predict how soon that cow will lie down again.
Are Cows More Likely to Lie down the Longer They Stand? Bert J. Tolkamp Marie J. Haskell Fritha M. Langford David J. Roberts Colin A. Morgan Applied Animal Behaviour Science vol. 124
If cow tipping were real this could be complicated significantly more. For: the medical techniques described in their report Surgical Management of an Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Siam techniques which they recommend except in cases where the amputated penis had been eaten partially by a duck.
If cow tipping were real this could be complicated significantly more. I hope that this is a joke that cow tipping isn't real
or POPSCI does not realize how many idiots there are on this planet. rainbowmakernot a joke cow tipping is an urban myth.
OK the proof is not exactly scientific. But consider this: Since Youtube is the clearing house of all things stupid shouldn't there be at least one video capturing an authentic cow tipping???
Look for yourself. You won't find one
#FYI: Why Do Leaves Turn Different Colors? Leaves are loaded with chlorophyll which makes them green.
In addition some farmers give their cows pigs and chickens low doses of antibiotics to make them grow faster.
and herds of grazing cattle. Giant truck stops glow on the horizon and mile-long trains tug boxcars loaded with grain to places as far away as Mexico and California.
That process along with the methane the cows belch throughout their lives contributes as much as 51 percent of all greenhouse gas produced in the world.
The cow gets its protein that way and simply rearranges it into muscle. People say âÂ# Gee
You get it from the same place the cow got it. âÂ# To Barnard the simple conclusion is that everyone should stick to eating plants
#Here You Will Find A Livestream With Nigerian Dwarf Goatsour friends over at Modern Farmer kicked off their special Goat Week today featuring tons of great big stories about urban goat-raising how to find the best goat for you and our old friend
the spider-goat--and that's just today. Our favorite though is this live-streaming goat-cam showing off the Nigerian dwarf goats of a farm in Minnesota.
For more about goats consult your local petting zoo. Or read Modern Farmer this week.
Or just look up goat on Wikipedia. For what it's worth our top three favorite goat breeds are fainting Dutch landrace and Valais blackneck.
That is one adorable goat!!!I used to have a Nigerian that looked just like her in the picture;
wattles in-all. Goats are cool animals with great personalities. ---In space no one can hear a tree fall in the forest t
#Follow A Queen bee On Her Maiden Mating Flightqueen honeybees mate just once in their lives within weeks of emerging as an adult from the little honeycomb cells in
which they grew. Their mating flights may be the only time they ever leave their hive.
#Is Red Bull Downplaying Research On The Harms Of Mixing Alcohol And Energy Drinks? Step away from the Jà ¤gerbomb.
Peter Miller a psychologist from Austrialia's Deakin University has taken to BMJ (formerly The british Medical Journal) to air his view that energy drink titans like Red Bull are meddling in research that explores the harms of mixing energy drinks
Red Bull sold 4. 6 million cans of its picker-upper last year presumably in large part to college students who wanted to use it as a mixer.
milligrams per 8 ounces about the same as two cans of soda plus various energy boosters like caffeine ginseng and taurine.
Red Bull has only been around since 1997 and in lab settings researchers can't just get people wasted
and Red Bull to be completely safe have been funded by Red Bull. From Miller: Red Bull often provides a placebo drink to researchers--after the company approves their protocols
--but as one psychologist told Livescience this means that there's no independent verification that the placebo doesn't contain stimulants like the active version of the Drink in an email to Popular Science Patrice Radden a spokesperson for Red Bull had this to say in response to Miller
's editorial: The company did not respond to inquiries about the placebo they provide researchers or their methods for approving study protocols.
and it doesn't provide a whole lot of empirical evidence for Red Bull tainting the research pool per se
Red bull causes the following amazing endocrine benefits: 1. Adrenal fatigue: chronic use means your adrenals are pumping out adrenaline and noradrenaline at phenomenal rates.
gut bacteria of this sort is associated more often with ruminants like cows. But there are no cows in the upper rainforest!
And colobi are seed important dispersal vectors in their habitat. Christopher Columbus mostly ate pickled and preserved meat and fish and bread products.
06am-Comment by drchuck1 bull you are just a bully A lot of the food we eat today comes from plants that were pollinated cross
In contrast livestock such as pigs and cows are expensive produce noxious chemicals such as methane and ammonia and take up land
After the Pronghorn antelope the Blue Wildebeest Lion Springbok Grant's Gazelle Tohomson's Gazelle and even the Quarter horse have all been clocked faster than 43 mph...
A Saluki is used to hunt Gazelle and is good for distance. I believe they are the most ancient dog breed
And meat comes in soo many diff forms that you could get everything you need. birdmeat cattle pigs fish craps/lobster snails and maggots and oysters...
I don't think all people are cattle but I do think a large majority of the 8. 3 Billion on this planet are in that category.
People and livestock (pigs chickens cows) are the most likely source of the majority of the carbon increase.
Factory farm animals like cows pigs and chickens consume massive amounts of grain water and land and require the deforestation of huge swathes of the planet.
First Long term Study Released on Pigs Cattle Who Eat GMO Soy and Corn Offers Frightening Results www. nationofchange. org/first-long-term-study-released-pigs-cattle-who-eat-gmo-soy
-and-corn-offers-frightening-results-13723stunning Corn Comparison: GMO versus NON GMO www. momsacrossamerica. com stunning corn comparison gmo versus non gmoknown to Kill Cows Castrate Wildlife Induce Spontaneous abortion in Lab Rats...
And it's Likely in Your Water articles. mercola. com/sites/articles/archive/2012/07/19/gmo-corn-resulting-livestock-deaths. aspx?
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