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Charolais calves which were transferred, as embryos, into their Aberdeen Angus and Hereford recipient mothers. Calves may be produced by natural means, or by artificial breeding using artificial insemination or embryo transfer. [5] Calves are born after nine months. They usually stand within a few minutes of calving, and suckle within an hour.
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.
In these large animals, the birth process is similar to that of a human, though in most the offspring is precocial. This means that it is born in a more advanced state than a human baby and is able to stand, walk and run (or swim in the case of an aquatic mammal) shortly after birth. [2]
The calf is the first-born of 12-year-old male white rhino Mumbles, and the second rhino ever born at the zoo. Rare horned creature welcomes new baby at Florida zoo. See the endangered calf
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. [85] Garima-I, a buffalo calf cloned using an "Advanced Hand guided Cloning ...
The reported birth of a rare white buffalo in Yellowstone National Park fulfills a Lakota prophecy that portends better times, according to members of the American Indian tribe who cautioned that ...
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 ...
List of animal names, for animals whose young are called "calves" Crus, the entire lower leg; Calve (disambiguation) Calving (disambiguation) Calf Island (disambiguation) Golden calf, idol described in the Bible; Cow–calf, a set of switcher-type locomotives; Calf, a small island near a larger one; see Category:Calves (islands)