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  2. California hide trade - Wikipedia

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    California hide trade. The California hide trade was a trading system of various products based in cities along the California coastline, operating from the early 1820s to the mid-1840s. In exchange for hides and tallow from cattle owned by California ranchers, [ 1 ] sailors from around the globe, often representing corporations, swapped ...

  3. Animal welfare - Wikipedia

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    Animal welfare is the well-being of non-human animals. Formal standards of animal welfare vary between contexts, but are debated mostly by animal welfare groups, legislators, and academics. [1][2] Animal welfare science uses measures such as longevity, disease, immunosuppression, behavior, physiology, and reproduction, [3] although there is ...

  4. Cowhide - Wikipedia

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    Cowhide is the natural, unbleached skin and hair of a cow. It retains the original coloring of the animal. Cowhides are a product of the food industry from cattle. Cowhide is frequently processed into leather.

  5. List of Doc Martin episodes - Wikipedia

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    He doesn't want to go, so Louisa offers the ticket to PC Mark Mylow (Stewart Wright) instead. Peter Cronk ( Kurtis O'Brien ), a boy at Louisa's school, causes trouble on a wildlife trip and Martin meets Park Ranger Stewart James ( Ben Miller ), a military veteran with PTSD , who believes he lives with a 6-foot red squirrel named Anthony.

  6. Sarah Baartman - Wikipedia

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    Sarah Baartman (Afrikaans: [ˈsɑːra ˈbɑːrtman]; c. 1789 – 29 December 1815), also spelled Sara, sometimes in the diminutive form Saartje (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈsɑːrtʃi]), or Saartjie, and Bartman, Bartmann, was a Khoikhoi woman who was exhibited as a freak show attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus, a name that was later attributed to at least one ...

  7. Livestock crush - Wikipedia

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    A cattle crush and an anti-bruise race in Australia. Chin (or neck) bar in operation during mouthing.. A cattle crush (in UK, New Zealand, Ireland, Botswana and Australia), squeeze chute (North America), cattle chute (North America), [1] [2] standing stock, or simply stock (North America, Ireland) is a strongly built stall or cage for holding cattle, horses, or other livestock safely while ...

  8. Temple Grandin - Wikipedia

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    Temple Grandin. Mary Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an American academic and ethologist. She is a prominent proponent of the humane treatment of livestock for slaughter and the author of more than 60 scientific papers on animal behavior. Grandin is a consultant to the livestock industry, where she offers advice on animal behavior, and ...

  9. Hide (skin) - Wikipedia

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    A hide or skin is an animal skin treated for human use. The word "hide" is related to the German word Haut, which means skin.The industry defines hides as "skins" of large animals e.g. cow, buffalo; while skins refer to "skins" of smaller animals: goat, sheep, deer, pig, fish, alligator, snake, etc. Common commercial hides include leather from cattle and other livestock animals, buckskin ...