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The scientists recorded baby goats' bleating when they were five weeks old. Then they played back those recordings to the mothers while the kids were away from them. The mother goats' reactions—how much they bleated, how quickly they looked toward the source of the sound—were measured as a baseline. Would the moms be able to pick out the voices of their now-adult children from the other familiar bleating? 
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Horizon presenter Adam Rutherford looks at the advances in synthetic biology and genetic engineering that have resulted in, among other things, computer-made life forms and cancer assassin cells...
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November 13, 2014 10:29 AM
This is absolutely amazing. Having goats that make silk that we can use as a product for many things including medicine is remarkable. If we do this with other animals, who knows what we could get animals to make that we can harvest and use. |
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The ability to change vocal sounds (vocal plasticity) and develop an accent is potentially far more widespread in mammals than previously believed, according to new research on goats from Queen Mary, University of London.
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A new study of the mating habits of mountain goats reveals the vastly different strategies of males in different populations and could shed light on the unseen impacts of hunting.
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