The sex business: animal husbandry
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Mastercalf and the US Dept of Agriculture are experimenting with a method of preselecting the sex of calves by sorting sperm before allowing in vitro fertilisation. This is less expensive than using a polymerase chain reaction, which will reveal the sex but cannot determine it.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1993
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Beetle drives: animal behaviour
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Entomologist Ali Harari observed that female Diaprepes abbreviatus beetles tend to mount other females. After conducting several experiments, it appears that the behavior may be the way females weed out smaller potential mates in favor of larger mates.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1997
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Chimps' choice: animal pharmacists
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Researchers studying chimps have found that the animals dose themselves with various plants to cure themselves of worms infestation and other ailments. The herbs used by animals often coincide with herbalist lore.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1992
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