How far will you go to protect your prized cattle from "cattle terrorism" and from theft by aliens?
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The subject of a recent post, rabies, put us in mind of another rare, invariably fatal neurodegenerative disease, Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease (CJD).
There are some papers out on the genome of the domestic cow out right now. ScienceNews has an overview:
Cattle are another of those groups of animals that, while they're familiar and while we take them for granted, are really pretty incredible. The size, power and awesome appearance of many wild cattle never fails to amaze me.
The antlers are a crazy idea. With the increase in the number of children, Santa has been forced to use more reindeer over Christmas, and the Finnish herd just isn't big enough. So his Little Helpers go out and kidnap reindeer from all over the world. They hold them in pens until late December, when they're taken out for Santa to use them in stages as he flies rapidly around the world doing his stuff.
So do something about it, unless you Yanks want your presents delivered by Santa being pulled by eight flying cows.
Bob