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"Calf" is the term used from birth to weaning, when it becomes known as a weaner or weaner calf, though in some areas the term "calf" may be used until the animal is a yearling. The birth of a calf is known as calving. A calf that has lost its mother is an orphan calf, also known as a poddy or poddy-calf in British.
On 8 January 2001, the first cloned gaur was born at Trans Ova Genetics in Sioux Center, Iowa. The calf was carried and brought successfully to term by a surrogate mother, a domestic cow (Bos taurus). While healthy at birth, the calf died within 48 hours of a common dysentery, most likely unrelated to cloning. [46]
Samrupa, the world's first Murrah buffalo (a type of water buffalo) calf cloned using a simple "Hand-guided cloning technique" was born in 2009 at National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal, India, but died due to a lung infection five days after she was born. [87] Garima-I, a buffalo calf cloned using an "Advanced Hand guided Cloning ...
The second elephant calf in two weeks has been born at a California zoo. African elephant Amahle gave birth early Monday morning, according to the Fresno Chaffee Zoo. The new additions are the ...
A fresh cow is a dairy term for a cow (or a first-calf heifer in few regions) who has recently given birth, or "freshened." The adjective applying to cattle in general is usually bovine. The terms bull, cow and calf are also used by extension to denote the sex or age of other large animals, including whales, hippopotamus, camels, elk and elephants.
Earlier this month, a white buffalo calf was born in the park's vast and lush Lamar Valley, where huge, lumbering bison graze by the hundreds in scenes reminiscent of the old American West.
Infants might be up to 6 feet tall – like in the case of a Masai giraffe calf – or as hefty as a 250-pound Asian elephant calf. Zoo babies, big and small, are born every year.
Gestation typically lasts six months, [48] after which a single calf is born. [22] Newborns are a light yellow; infant males may have a black patch on the head and the neck. [35] Young are precocial, they can stand on their own soon after birth. [8] Females can mate again after a month of parturition. [22]