Cattle

Cattle (colloquially cows) are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae, are the most widespread species of the genus Bos, and are most commonly classified collectively as Bos primigenius. Cattle are raised as livestock for meat (beef and veal), as dairy animals for milk and other dairy products, and as draft animals (oxen / bullocks) (pulling carts, plows and the like). Other products include leather and dung for manure or fuel. In some countries, such as India, cattle are sacred. From as few as eighty progenitors domesticated in southeast Turkey about 10,500 years ago, it is estimated that there are now 1.3 billion cattle in the world today. In 2009, cattle became the first livestock animal to have its genome mapped.

Cattle were originally identified as three separate species: Bos taurus, the European or "taurine" cattle (including similar types from Africa and Asia); Bos indicus, the zebu; and the extinct Bos primigenius, the aurochs. The aurochs is ancestral to both zebu and taurine cattle. Recently these three have increasingly been grouped as one species, with Bos primigenius taurus, Bos primigenius indicus and Bos primigenius primigenius as the subspecies.

GOP Wants to Declare War On Islamic Ideology In Wake Of Orlando Shooting

Edit WorldNews.com 17 Jun 2016

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingRepublicans are giving a whole new meaning to Carl Von Clausewitz’s famous military theory “war is the continuation of Politik by other means.” ... “Groups like ISIS want to claim that they are the true leaders of over a billion Muslims…who reject their crazy notions” said the president ... Indeed, some view it as either a conservative or liberal movement dependent on their notion of Islam....

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IAAF Refuses To Lift Ban, Russian Olympic Team To Miss Rio Olympics

Edit WorldNews.com 17 Jun 2016

A decision by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) governing body Friday will force Russian track and field athletes to miss the Rio Olympics after the sport's governing body decided unanimously to keep a ban in place ahead of the Games, SkyNews reported.In November, the IAAF provisionally suspended the country’s athletes from competition....

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gaint lizard tries to enter home in Thailand

Video: Godzilla-sized lizard tries to enter home in Thailand

Edit Deccan Chronicle 17 Jun 2016

How often do you see a Godzilla-sized lizard knocking your door? On Wednesday a Thai resident captured a video of his encounter with a giant reptile, who was knocking on his door trying to get into his house. Attanai Thaiyuanwong found this huge lizard trying to make his way into his place and within no time shared the photos of it on Facebook ...   . ....

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File - Ice on the Ellsworth Range in Antarctica as seen from NASA's DC-8 flying science laboratory during an Operation IceBridge mission over Antarctica on Oct. 22, 2012.

'We’re Officially Living in a New World': Antarctica Hits Highest CO2 Level in 4 Million Years

Edit Alternet 17 Jun 2016

Earth's most remote continent has officially caught up to the rest of the planet. That spells disaster for us all. We’re officially living in a new world. Carbon dioxide has been steadily rising since the start of the Industrial Revolution, setting a new high year after year. There’s a notable new entry to the record books. The last station on Earth without a 400 parts per million (ppm) reading has reached it. A little 400 ppm history....

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94-year-old former SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp Reinhold Hanning waits for the start of his trial in Detmold, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016.

Former Auschwitz guard Reinhold Hanning convicted

Edit BBC News 17 Jun 2016

A 94-year-old former guard at the Auschwitz death camp, Reinhold Hanning, is convicted and sentenced to five years in jail ... ....

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Report finds Grand Canyon bison are native to region

Edit Springfield News-Sun 18 Jun 2016

The study released Thursday acknowledges the current herd descends from bison that were brought to northern Arizona in the early 1900s by a rancher who wanted to crossbreed them with cattle ... "This was a group of animals, imported, bred with cattle, part of the commercial enterprise and don't fit most people's idea of what native wildlife would be."....

California inferno supports predictions for another bad year

Edit Boston Herald 18 Jun 2016

GOLETA, Calif. — Stoked by winds, a wildfire burning west of Santa Barbara roared down mountain slopes toward the Pacific Ocean, shutting down California's major coastal highway and forcing a group of firefighters to seek shelter behind a fire engine as flames licked at them ... Lanny Stableford watched as a fleet of aircraft attacked flames in rugged Refugio Canyon near his ranch, where he keeps 40 head of longhorn cattle ... U.S ... ... ___ ... ....

Eleven Individuals Indicted in June Federal Grand Jury (Federal Bureau of Investigation - Oklahoma City Field Office)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Jun 2016

... in interstate and foreign commerce, with the intent to deprive the other, namely Texas Beef Cattle Company (TBCC) of Amarillo, Texas, of a right to the property and a benefit of the property and did appropriate the property to his own use and the use of another, as follows. the proceeds of the sale of cattle, which had a value of $10,000 and more....

From Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee to UFC: The long, strange journey of MMA

Edit Canada Dot Com 18 Jun 2016

What will future archeologists conclude when they uncover The Octagon, the 30-foot-wide, eight-sided caged enclosure that mixed martial artists call home? It resembles little else — the offspring of a marriage between a boxing ring and cattle bullpen, perhaps, its less-than-clear provenance dating back at least to the first Ultimate Fighting Championship night — UFC 1 — in Denver in November 1993 ... the uppercut, jab, hook and clinch....

Cattle bludgeoning in Vietnam prompts call for live cattle trade suspension

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 17 Jun 2016

The RSPCA is calling for the suspension of the live cattle trade in the wake of revelations of what appears to be Australian cattle being bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer in a Vietnamese abattoir ... ....

Barnaby Joyce warns live cattle exporters as animal advocates seek ban over Vietnam abuse

Edit Canberra Times 17 Jun 2016

Distressing footage appearing to show Australian cattle being bludgeoned to death with sledgehammers in Vietnam has sparked renewed calls to ban live cattle exports ... ....

Cattle camps in Mah down from 435 to 108

Edit The Times of India 17 Jun 2016

With the onset of a few monsoon showers, the number of cattle camps in Maharashtra has been reduced, officials said....

Rajasthan govt sets up team to probe cattle deaths

Edit Indian Express 17 Jun 2016

It has also started to provide medical care to the weak cattle on the spot ... Animal diseases hospital In Ajmer, ‘VHP men’ smear grease on officials over death of cowsCentre-funded MP cattle schemefailsHoly CowDespite FMD,government to hold cattle fair ... The department has also deputed two teams of veterinarians to provide medical care to the starving cattle....

Labor calls for new animal welfare agency after live cattle bludgeon

Edit The Guardian 17 Jun 2016

Cattle industry suspends trade with three Vietnamese abattoirs after shocking slaughter footage, but Coalition and Labor rule out banning live cattle trade ... The cattle industry has suspended trade with the three abattoirs but both the government and opposition have ruled out banning the live cattle trade ... Cattle 'exported from Australia' killed with sledgehammer in Vietnamese abattoir ... “We will not be banning the live cattle trade”....

Bludgeoning cattle to death in Vietnam abattoirs

Edit Arabnews 17 Jun 2016

Vietnamese abattoir workers have been filmed using sledgehammers to bludgeon Australian cattle, activists said on Thursday, prompting some exporters to stop supplying livestock to some slaughterhouses in the southeast Asian nation ... Animals Australia said ear tags were removed from cattle so they could not be linked back to exporters and that the killings took place in “filthy, unhygienic conditions.”....