Jeff Lawson (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bovineone) wrote,@ 2004-04-26 01:07:00 |
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Recent cow news from around the world
Florida senate passes ban on pulling tails of bulls.
- An obscure Venezuelan sport that involves pulling bulls down by their tails would be banned in Florida under a bill that passed the state Senate this weekend.
The measure would establish fines and possible jail time as part of an animal cruelty bill.
Two headed, three-eyed calf born in Texas
- A calf born in an east Texas town, about 60 miles east of Dallas, is thriving despite its two mouths and three eyes.
Hale said the 57-pound calf is friendly, likes to drink milk from its mother and enjoys lapping up water by using both tongues.
Cloned Cows Produce Cancer Fighter
- Cows have been engineered to produce antitumor compounds in their blood, suggesting a new way of manufacturing complex therapeutic proteins.
Gottfried Brem of the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna and colleagues have shown that cloned, transgenic animals can be used to produce a special type of antitumor antibody.
2 calves born of cows fertilized with sperm frozen 40 years
- KYOTO — Two calves were born of cows fertilized with sperm that had been refrigerated for about 40 years at a Kyoto University ranch, renewing a world record, university officials said Friday. The sperm, kept at minus 196 C in a freezer since August 1964, was used to fertilize two cows last June, leading to the births of a 36.6-kilogram male calf on March 19 and a 28.8-kg female calf on April 3, they said.
