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Cows, for example, do not just graze randomly. By avoiding areas contaminated with faeces, they gobble up far fewer parasitic lungworm larvae.
frogs boiled in oil and fermented goat dung. Greeks from the 4TH CENTURY BC preferred rendered pig fat
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)
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.
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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 team had found a way of replacing the nucleus of a sheep's egg cell with a nucleus from an adult ewe's cell,
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.
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.
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.
In like fashion, the common wildebeest on the African Serengeti are less vulnerable to attack by lions
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,
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.
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.
#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
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
#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.
She read a chunk of the Senates healthcare reform bill, a document called oewhats in A can of Red Bull?(
and deadlines by guzzling so-called energy drinks like Jolt, Red Bull and Rockstar. But, as it turns out,
A drink called Blue Cow says it can improve concentration, relieve anxiety and irritability from fatigue,
Blue Cow, for instance, does not. Some brands have a lot of sugar; others have none. Yet even an ingredient as seemingly benign as rose hips,
Today, four corporations slaughter 80 percent of the cattle in the United states. In Wyoming, for example,
where cattle ranching is so iconic that license plates carry an image of a cowboy, there is no longer a single slaughterhouse inspected by either the federal or state government.
Instead, ranchers ship cattle across state lines to megaprocessors, where cows are fattened usually on grain and fed antibiotics before they are slaughtered in facilities that process up to 3,
and has certified eight others across the country for large animals cattle, sheep and pigs. A group of about 20 farmers in Western Maryland will meet with the USDA later this month to discuss bringing a mobile slaughterhouse to Washington
said Dick Stoner, who raises black angus cattle on a farm in Sharpsburg, Md.,near the Antietam Civil war battlefield.
Like neighboring farmers, Stoner sells some cattle to bulk slaughterhouses in the West. He has been consumed with the idea of a slaughtermobile
Today, four corporations slaughter 80 percent of the cattle in the United states. In Wyoming, for example
where cattle ranching is so iconic that license plates carry an image of a cowboy, there is no longer a single slaughterhouse inspected by either the federal or state government.
Instead, ranchers ship cattle across state lines to megaprocessors, where cows are fattened usually on grain and fed antibiotics before they are slaughtered in facilities that process up to 3,
and has certified eight others across the country for large animals cattle, sheep and pigs. A group of about 20 farmers in Western Maryland will meet with the USDA later this month to discuss bringing a mobile slaughterhouse to Washington
said Dick Stoner, who raises black angus cattle on a farm in Sharpsburg, Md.,near the Antietam Civil war battlefield.
Like neighboring farmers, Stoner sells some cattle to bulk slaughterhouses in the West. He has been consumed with the idea of a slaughtermobile
Bad temper donkey did not want to work with the bull, such uncoordinated working force. This is the first time I saw such kind of farming method
#Scientists Incorporate Spiders Silk-Spinning Genes Into Goats Goats that produce spider silk protein in their milk could enable researchers to collect large quantities of the silk.
Researchers from the University of Wyoming have developed a way to incorporate spiders silk-spinning genes into goats,
and other researchers decided to put the spiders dragline silk gene into goats in such a way that the goats would only make the protein in their milk.
Like any other genetic factor, only a certain percentage of the goats end up with the gene.
of seven goat kids born in February 2010, three have tested positive for having the silk protein gene.
When these transgenic goats have kids and start lactating, the researchers will collect the milk
the goats do not seem to have any other differences in health, appearance, or behavior compared to goats without the gene,
the researchers said. In the future, the scientists plan to incorporate the silk genes into alfalfa plants,
#Cow Manure from Dairy farms Could Help Power Internet Giants Cow manure from dairy farms could help power Google
Guess what the cow has done this time? Americas dairy farmers could soon find themselves in the computer business,
with the manure from their cows possibly powering the vast data centers of companies like Google and Microsoft.
and dairy farmers efforts to deal with cattle waste by turning it into fuel. With the right skills, a dairy farmer could rent out land
10,000 cows could fuel a 1mw data center, the equivalent of a computing center used by a bank.
#Insurance Coverage Has Become an Economic Catalyst for Rural India A farmer in rural India shows off the insurance tag on his cow Big Rose.
his prized milking cow, was hit by a car or crushed in a cyclone. But thanks to a $14-a-month insurance policy, it would no longer be a financial disaster.
Debarasus new cow-insurance coverage represents a significant step forward in Indias hopes to lift hundreds of millions of people into prosperity.
Insurance for cattle, chickens, tractors, trucks and lives is suddenly appearing in Indias vast rural areas
Three months ago he insured four cows; one month ago he insured his brand-new tractor;
said the Mumbai-based company insured 40,000 cattle last year alone. It is now canvassing three more states.
Deers, Black bucks, Peacocks, Blue bulls, Chinkaras, are some of the animals that you would find roaming around their settlements.
If not for the Bishnois, the Black buck and Chinkara, which come under Section 9 of the Wildlife Protection Act,
The walls form large funnels to direct gazelle and other large game animals into killing pits Whats more, the kites are between 2, 300 and 2,
200 years ago and are just the right size to have worked on local gazelles and other hooved game.
Modern wildlife managers in the same region have used a similar approach by laying pipes on the ground to direct gazelles into a corral, Avner reports.
Before the 20th century the region was home to several different species of gazelle wild asses, hartebeests, oryxes, ibexes, dorcas and onagers.
Some kites cleverly exploited low spots in the landscape to lure animals into the unseen killing pit. oeindeed,
Life-sized models of giraffes, elephants, lions, crocodiles, zebras, bison and other animals greet visitors as they arrive in the main hold.
and goats, and one camel. Visitors on the first day were stunned. Its beyond comprehension, said Mary Louise Starosciak,
and rams from diverse and exotic breeds such as the Barbados Blackbelly and St croix. The new ewes are estimated to save farmers eight pounds per animal per year in labour costs
#China Creates Worlds First Genetically Modified Cow Yay! Now the world has beefy abominations. Chinese scientists have created the worlds first genetically modified cow that can give milk rich in Omega-3 fatty acid,
Xinhua reported. oetwo embryo-cloned and genetically-modified dairy cows were born June 23 last year. One of the cows has been found to have Omega-3 fatty acid level 10 times higher than a normal cow,
said Li Guangpeng, head of the Biological Technology Laboratory at Inner Mongolia University. oewe did not announce the birth of the cows until now
because it has taken time to check the cows effective genetic traces, Li said He said it takes 14-15 months for a cow to become sexually mature,
and another nine months to produce milk. The cows have been fed with normal cow feed. Dubbed a oegood fat,
Omega-3 is an essential fatty acid necessary for human health. But it cannot be made by the human body.
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#FDA Pressured to Take on Food Fraud Of the hundreds of customers who bought 10 million pounds of mislabeled Vietnamese catfish including national chains
And raising livestock, particularly methane-producing cattle, contribute the third most. On the other end of the spectrum, the industrial sector releases such a high proportion of sulfates
#Spherical Cows Help to Dump Metabolism Law According to a new mathematical analysis, the mysterious oe3/4 law of metabolism proposed by Max Kleiber in 1932 and later described as oeextended to all
assume a spherical cow. oethats what a physicist would do, Dodds says, laughing. Basic geometry shows that the surface area of this difficult-to-milk creature would increase as the square of its radius
with the lowest necessary energy use, both geometry and common sense suggest that the cow would have a lower rate of metabolism per cell than the mouse:
the mouse, with more surface area relative to its volume, would lose heat faster than our cartoon cow.
the body weight of 13 mammals, ranging from rats to cows, against their resting metabolism. Strangely, the line traced through the data points did not conform to Rubners observation nor common sense.
Maybe thats why stimulants, from geisha tea to Red Bull, have long been held in high esteem as aphrodisiacs.
but was horrified to see that the features of the lambs snout bore a striking resemblance to a human face. oeive seen mutations with cows and sheep before.
Ive seen a one-eyed calf, a two-headed calf, a five-legged calf. But when I saw this youngster I could not believe my eyes.
A goat from Zimbabwe gave birth to a similar youngster in September 2009. The mutant baby born with a humanlike head stayed alive for several hours until the frightened village residents killed him.
The governor of the province where the ugly goat was born said that the little goat was the fruit of unnatural relationship between the female goat
while the body is that of a goat. This is evident that an adult human being was responsible.
The locals burned the body of the little goat and biologists had no chance to study the rare mutation.
and hay to feed cows has gone up sharply while the price that farmers receive for their milk has not.
That means that farmers feed their cows less resulting in lower milk production. At the same time, fewer farmers have been converting from conventional dairying to organic.
and grain fed to cattle, which is partly because of increasing demand for corn for ethanol.
Mr. Azevedo said that cows on organic farms typically produce much less milk than cows on conventional farms.
Some animals that are afflicted sometimes include cows, snakes, lizards, turtles, dogs, cats and chickens. This past week, a two-headed pig with one eye, was born on Xiao Jintu s pig farm,
The drive to make all food supplies local has touched off a number of battles to rewrite municipal codes to accommodate everything from rooftop gardens, to backyard cows and chickens
Clone Ranchers Raising blank#humans will be similar in many respects to cattle ranching. But once a clone is selected
It comes just months after Chinese scientists announced they had modified genetically a herd of around 300 diary cows to produce milk with the same qualities as human breast milk,
#Turner is dedicated a conservationist who has resurrected the American bison on his ranches (he has some 55,000 of the beasts munching his grasslands now.
headquartered in Santa fe, one of the nation s biggest cattle and horse-breeding operations. The fabled King Ranch of South Texas comes in seventh at 911,215 acres.
the ranch boasts its own breed of cattle, the Santa Gergrudis, which the family developed by crossbreeding Shorthorn and Hereford cattle with Brahman.
The Pingree family of Maine are eighth with 830,000 acres of timberland. Like the King family, the Pingrees started with a patriarch in the shipping business, David Pingree,
Insects emit less greenhouse gases than cattle and require less feed, supposedly making them environmentally-friendly.
Anderson Marsh State Historic Park Annadel State Park Antelope Valley Indian Museum Austin Creek State Recreational Area Bale Grist Mill
and their children have seen never animals or chickens or goats before.##Urban beekeepers may be biased, but they contend their honey tastes better than country honey
Hmmm#there are so few sports that involve cows. Maybe for good reason...Checkmate! Now bend over and let me sniff your butt#..
The Guardian reports that Welsh scientists are collecting honey to help identify new antibacterial drugs. The idea is not necessarily to use the honey itself,
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