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I have my trained-to-be-curious sons and question-authority offspring home for Christmas.
This morning’s far wandering discussion started with the neighbor’s gone-to-slaughter beef cattle and evolved into a debate about what is a heifer and what is a cow (which they should have known, having attended a rural agricultural magnet High School - FAIL), and then segued into which female mammals and babies are known as “cows” and “calves” and why.
One son took the stance that any female mammal which had borne children as a cow. I noted that this would then apply to their mother, who unbeknownst to me was listening in the next room.
Not wives. But antelope, Bison, Camel, Elk, Moose, Elephants, Giraffes, Yaks, Whales and etc are all cows and calfs. . . . gawd bless the Google machine. I will print this out as a Christmas gift for them to study, and quiz them later.
http://www2.biology.ualberta.ca/uamz.hp/MamName.html
This morning’s far wandering discussion started with the neighbor’s gone-to-slaughter beef cattle and evolved into a debate about what is a heifer and what is a cow (which they should have known, having attended a rural agricultural magnet High School - FAIL), and then segued into which female mammals and babies are known as “cows” and “calves” and why.
One son took the stance that any female mammal which had borne children as a cow. I noted that this would then apply to their mother, who unbeknownst to me was listening in the next room.
Not wives. But antelope, Bison, Camel, Elk, Moose, Elephants, Giraffes, Yaks, Whales and etc are all cows and calfs. . . . gawd bless the Google machine. I will print this out as a Christmas gift for them to study, and quiz them later.
http://www2.biology.ualberta.ca/uamz.hp/MamName.html
