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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...