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These were the first cloned calves, the first cloned grey wolves, and then, finally, the first cloned piglets: Alexis, Chista, Carrel, Janie and Dotcom.
The calves were bulky blocks of metal with pipes bolted together for the ankles and a yellow rubber foot with a raised rubber line from the toe to the ankle to look like a vein.
(Dolphin whistling noises) And this is the best-studied sound, because it's easy to measure, really, and you'd find this whistle when mothers and calves are reuniting, for example.
For example, they babysit each other's calves.
But when we don't dive down and get it, they'll bring it to the surface and they'll sort of wave it in front of us on their tail and drop it for us like they do their calves, and then we'll pick it up and have a game.
Bears fed on it too, and their population began to rise as well, partly also because there were more berries growing on the regenerating shrubs, and the bears reinforced the impact of the wolves by killing some of the calves of the deer.
SeaWorld gives mother orcas antianxiety medications when their calves are taken away.
Matthew is attracted to women with muscular calves.
And the funny thing is, they met with girls and asked them what they wanted to see in dolls, and you can see, they have calves and elbows that bend so they can do superhero stuff.
The relationships don’t go much beyond mating— she and her calves stay with her family, while the male returns to his own mother.
These grandmothers’ expertise can mean the difference between life and death for their families– but why do they stop having calves?
An older female can further her genes without burdening her family by supporting her adult sons, who sire calves other families will raise.
Young calves have much thinner skins, and it's potential that they could be stung through their thinner skins.
There's another elephant that kicks one of calves on the ground to tell it to get up as if there is a threat.
Well let's look at mothers and calves.
And this is the kind of call that is used by, say, right whale mothers and calves as they separate to come back again.
Having shown calves as a child, I really liked the ending.
She even named one of our calves "Hokey Pokey Keen"!!!
The story revolves around the bad guy in town named Bat Haines, who is fooling everybody and plotting two families against each other by stealing each other's calves and then setting it up so that each one blames the other.
Left to fend for himself, he is then taken in by the dolphins who live in the river and protect their human charge from predators as they would their own calves.
Veal calves are similarly confined for all their lives in individual stalls that do not permit them to turn around, lie down, or stretch their limbs.
For veal calves, that date, January 1, 2007, is almost here.
Last month in Arizona, despite well-funded opposition from agribusiness, the ban on small cages for sows and veal calves also passed, with 62% support.
So the results strongly suggest that if all Americans were given a chance to vote on keeping pregnant pigs and calves in such tight confinement, the majority would vote no.
In the US, a nation that prides itself on its democratic traditions, pigs and calves are hardly the only losers.
Individual stalls for veal calves were the first to go, in 2007.
Yet, despite these well-founded criticisms, over the last 20 years factory farming – not only of chickens, but also of pigs, veal calves, dairy cows, and, in outdoor feedlots, cattle – has spread rapidly in developing countries, especially in Asia.
The consumption of veal has fallen sharply since it became widely known that to produce so-called “white” – actually pale pink – veal, newborn calves are separated from their mothers, deliberately made anemic, denied roughage, and kept in stalls so narrow that they cannot walk or turn around.
It has already outlawed keeping veal calves in individual stalls,and, in six months, it will be illegal in all 27 EU countries, from Portugal to Poland and from Britain to Greece, to keep laying hens in the bare-wire cages that today dominate the egg industry around the world.
The European Union established a scientific committee to investigate animal-welfare issues on farms, and the committee recommended banning the battery cage, along with some other forms of close confinement of pigs and calves.
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