Sheep offer clues to small babies
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Experts say young sheep having small lambs may explain why young mothers have underweight babies.
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EGYPT, Ark. - Goats normally have no more than two young at a time, so Scott and Tim Turner were understandably surprised when they found one of their herd of Boer goats had given birth to quadruplets. It is that time of year at the Buckshot Ridge Boer Goat Farm.
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The declining number of dark sheep among  a wild herd in Scotland comes down to genes, researchers said  on Thursday.
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Scientists design a device they say should help doctors work out how best to deliver babies stuck during labour.
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KUNMING, China -- When Liu Huana was 5 or 6 years old, she learned to help her older sister put goats out to pasture. By the time she was 7, she could take care of 20 goats by herself, often stopping to sneak fresh watermelon from another farmer's fields.
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 11--Pork was scarce in the Middle Ages, so merchants could command a pretty penny for a bag holding a baby pig.
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Archeologists found a small container with a whitish medicinal or cosmetic cream made up of animal fat, starch and tin oxide. Researchers writing in the November edition of the British magazine Nature say
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PBSâs childrenâs show, where animals talk and have humanlike jobs, is intermittently interesting, and itâs served up with eye-catching computer-generated animation.
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Researchers have found evidence of a population of chimps that shares plant foods.
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Researchers find way to make tiny structures emit different wavelengths of light.
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Iranian scientists said Monday that the country's first cloned sheep is thriving 15 months after birth, eating well and frolicking among a flock of normal sheep
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The Cambridge University team which discovered that sheep prefer happy, smiley people has once again pushed back the envelope of ovine understanding with the revelation that sheep cheer up when they see snaps of friends and relatives.
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By Munz, Tania  LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-2311.3038-4. Pounds 32.00, $49.50 (hardback).
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It may be that when adults talk to babies, they use a language that is universally understood.
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Shepherds on an island off Africa whistle to communicate across great distances. Their brains, a new study says, interpret the sounds just as if they were spoken words.
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A group of scientists in Japan have developed a humanoid that acts like a toddler to better understand child development.
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Nocturnal bovine botherer caught in the act Warning: no IT angle North Yorkshire police are on a state of high alert after a youth was spotted coupling with an English longhorn cow at a specialist breeder's farm in Skipwith, North Yorkshire, The Sun reports.â¦