• 巴西肉牛产业对雨林的破坏逐渐减小

    15-05-13 Expansion of cattle pastures has led to the destruction of huge swaths of rain forest in Brazil, home to the world's largest herd of commercial beef cattle. But a new study led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Holly Gibbs shows that market-d...

  • The stag in the ox-stall 牛棚里的雄鹿

    15-03-30 A stag, chased from his lair by the hounds, took refuge in a farmyard, and, entering a stable where a number of oxen were stalled, thrust himself under a pile of hay in a vacant stall, where he lay concealed, all but the tips of his horns. Presently...

  • 猎杀狼群不会使家畜数量增长

    14-12-04 Washington State University researchers have found that it is counter-productive to kill wolves to keep them from preying on livestock. Shooting and trapping lead to more dead sheep and cattle the following year, not fewer. Writing in the journal PL...

  • 黄头鹭已自行在巴西生存繁衍

    14-05-10 In recent years the cattle egret(黄头鹭) (Bubulcus ibis) has colonized American continent. Invasive species are a worldwide problem and studies are devoted to assess the damage they cause to local species populations. Thus, the process of coloniza...

  • 狼群捕食影响家畜体重的增长

    14-01-23 A recent study by University of Montana faculty and graduate students found that wolf predation of cattle contributes to lower weight gain in calves on western Montana ranches. This leads to an economic loss at sale several times higher than the dir...

  • 屎壳郎能减少牲畜粪便发出的温室气体

    13-08-23 Cattle contribute to global warming by burping(打嗝) and farting(放屁) large amounts of greenhouse gases. Some of the same gases are also emitted from cow pats on pastures. But now researchers from the University of Helsinki have found that beet...

  • 人类感染的MRSA菌株源于家畜

    13-08-14 A strain of bacteria that causes skin and soft tissue infections in humans originally came from cattle, according to a study to be published in mBio, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. The researchers who conduc...

  • 七千年前人类已开始食用牲畜奶

    12-06-21 The first unequivocal(明确的) evidence that humans in prehistoric Saharan Africa used cattle for their milk nearly 7,000 years ago is described in research by an international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, UK, published Jun...

  • 巴拉圭屠杀牲畜控制口蹄疫

    11-09-23 Paraguay has begun the slaughter of around 1,000 cattle in an attempt to eradicate an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. 巴拉圭已经屠杀近1000头牲畜,试图消灭已经爆发的口蹄疫。 Soldiers have been destroying the animals with rifles and burying them i...

  • 澳大利亚暂停向印尼出口牲畜

    11-06-08 The Australian government has suspended live cattle exports to Indonesia until safeguards are adopted to end the brutal slaughter of animals. 澳大利亚政府暂时停止向印度尼西亚出口活体牲畜,直到当地保安停止对动物残忍的杀害。 The move follows an invest...