livestock
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Alpaca Sex Is Even Weirder Than You Think
Just in case you’d like to know: Alpaca sex is weird, biologically speaking. In a new paper this month, scientists have presented evidence that male alpacas impregnate their partners by thrusting their penises all the way up inside the female’s uterus—a tactic not documented with any other mammal species to date. The research was led…
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Livestock Facial Recognition Could Help Prevent Farm Crime
Last week, it was reported that 700 sheep with an estimated value of $140,000, including nearly 200 valuable merino ewes, were stolen from a Victorian property in a highly sophisticated rural crime operation. Such large-scale rural theft is increasingly common. Rural crime is not isolated to certain states. Rather, stock theft is an Australian problem.…
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U.S. Approves First Vaccination of Honeybees
The bees are having a rough go of it, and that’s news bad for humans — we need bees to pollinate our crops. Now, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has given the green light to a biotech company to vaccinate honeybees against a fatal infectious disease, one of the major threats to these creatures.
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Hell Yeah, There’s a Muskox Cam
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has teamed up with Explore.org, an organisation with a network of live nature cams, to launch a webcam that gives you a live look at the university’s muskoxen, reindeer, and bison.