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Nyci's parents have been no help at all. The father began taking mock bites at the newborn calf, and had to be put in a separate pen. The mother showed no desire to feed her firstborn. Nyci downs two quarts of a formula-milk, heavy cream, casein, Lactaid and vitamins-piped daily into her stomach by keepers who have to swim out after her and pull her to the side of the pool for a feeding...
Scientists know almost nothing about raising young belugas-when, for example, to wean the calf and begin giving it a regular diet of mackerel and herring...
...thread through station wagons and campers jamming Main Street. Once inside Wall Drug, road-weary visitors are faced with a bewildering pastiche of class and kitsch. The store sells $200 Tony Lama boots-as well as $2.19 models of Mount Rushmore and corncob toilet paper for $1.19. Left-handed calf ropers can buy lariats twisted especially for southpaws. The Rock Hound Shop offers fossils and crystals. Campers buy heavy iron skillets, lightweight canteens and water-purifying tablets; ranchers buy lousefly killer, sheep-branding liquid and cow vaccine. God knows who buys hundreds upon hundreds of Wall Drug gimcracks, from spoon...
...looked a typical barnyard scene, when a Holstein dairy cow named Flossie gave birth at New York City's Bronx Zoo last week. Flossie, as would any good bovine mother, promptly began licking the calf, hovered protectively over it, and within an hour started to nurse it. But for zoo officials-indeed, for all animal lovers concerned with preserving endangered species-this blessed event was something very special. Flossie's offspring was not an ordinary black-and-white Holstein calf but a baby gaur (rhymes with flower), a rare type of wild ox that lives in the remote...
...larger than gaur calves. Though the reproductive cycles of all five animals had been synchronized with drugs, one cow did not accept the embryo. Another aborted after five months. The third delivered a dead fetus at 9½ months. But two weeks later, Flossie produced a normal gaur calf of about 70 Ibs. (A normal Holstein calf would weigh up to 90 Ibs.) Zoo officials, who hope that it will be only the first of a number of gaurs that Flossie may bear, promptly named the shaggy brown calf Manhar, a Hindi word translated roughly as one who wins...