Stories
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Maria McKinney on ‘Sire’
All my grandparents were farmers; I grew up in the countryside surrounded by farms and helped neighbours herd sheep and cattle into the field. My body of work called ‘Sire’ looks at the genomics of modern cattle breeding.
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A little wildness
To salve her longing for a dog, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan chose a puppy. She found that, despite centuries of domestication, her dog still retains aspects of her wild ancestry.
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Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.
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The men who meddled with nature
The ‘acclimatisation societies’ of the 19th century sought to ‘improve’ on the natural world by releasing non-native species into the wild. The effects were disastrous.
Catalogue
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Animal breeding abstracts.
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Animal breeding / by John Hammond.
Hammond, John, 1889-1964.Date: [1963]- Books
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Animal breeding / by A.L. Hagedoorn.
Hagedoorn, Arend L. (Arend Lourens), 1880-1953.Date: [1939]- Books
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Animal breeding / by A.L. Hagedoorn.
Hagedoorn, Arend L. (Arend Lourens), 1880-1953.Date: 1950- Books
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Animal breeding / by A.L. Hagedoorn ; with a memoir by John Hammond.
Hagedoorn, Arend L. (Arend Lourens), 1880-1953.Date: [1954]