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It's a girl: first IVF bison calf joins Northern Colorado herd
And then there were... 44. Eight bison — four calves and their mothers — were released in mid-March on public lands in northern Colorado, bringing the total number of animals in the Laramie Foothills Bison Conservation Herd to 44.
A 10-month-old calf known as IVF 1 was among the newcomers. She is the first bison calf conceived using in vitro fertilization, or IVF, at Colorado State University. IVF 1 is also the first bison calf in the world to be conceived using reproductive material from animals removed from Yellowstone National Park.
This type of technology could provide a solution for conservationists seeking to protect animals facing extinction, like the Northern white rhinoceros in Africa.
[...] [Jennifer Barfield, a reproductive physiologist with the CSU Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology Laboratory,] said the team will transfer more IVF embryos later this year. She and the project partners hope to one day have 100 bison in the Laramie Foothills Bison Conservation Herd. [...] The use of this reproductive technology in American bison also opens up another avenue for conservation efforts. Barfield's lab at CSU has approximately 1,500 frozen embryos that could be used in a year, or even in a hundred years. "That gives us the opportunity to access these Yellowstone genetics for a very long time," she said.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by khallow on Wednesday March 28 2018, @08:01AM (5 children)
I guess we know another reason why now. I somehow doubt everyone is waiting with baited breath to learn just how many little khallows there may or may not be roaming the fields of Yellowstone and goring hapless tourists. In the typical political article, these sorts of posts get lost in the noise and there is a lot of noise. But here, it's a glistening turd on the dining room table. There's nothing to hide it. So when someone goes in to look at the comments, they get this, freaky stuff like the Woman-user, or Uranus jokes. That turns off the appetite quickly.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday March 28 2018, @10:01AM (4 children)
My dear perverse and illiterate khallow! Please!
The phrase is "Waiting with bated breath," bated as in "abate", or "rebate", meaning held back, as in "waiting while holding one's breath". Baited breath, so far as I can tell, involves Bianca mouth spray, or some other lure for the opposite, or same, or in this case, eau de grasse buffalo?
Whatever are you talking about, khallow? Clearly Ouranous, the Sky god, cares nothing for your indulgences. But, Freaky? What of dost thou speak, oh smarthed and gendolent khallow? Perhaps thou perchance pollents a posset? If one cannot comprehend the conjuror, there is no point to the exorcism.
Perhaps you have heard of Kind Midas? He was gifted a perfect bull, from out of the surf, by the god Posiedon. But rather than sacrifice it, he kept the bull, and had another killed in its place. Posiedon, in his rage, caused Minos' wife to concieve a carnal desire for the perfect bull. With the help of the Father of all engineers, sculptors, and roboticists, Daedalus, she entered a contraption by which her desire was satisfied. And some time later, the Wife of Minos gave birth to a monster, half human, like his mother, and half bull, after his sire. Kind of the opposite of the khallow example. Though, still, to me, the genetics do not work out. Myth, after all.
But then the moral lesson kicks in. The Minotaur (Minos, patra in matria, and Taurus, patra in res) was raised in the Palace of King Minos in Crete. (Hmm, Taurokhallow?) But he was a very finicky eater. It was not until one gala party, where the little Minotaur started taking bites out of guests, that they realized what he really needed as a diet. Daedalus, alway on call, it seems, designed a intricate maze under the palace of Minos, and the King decreed that all subservient cities should, on alternate years and selected by lot, send a fixed number of youth to Crete, to be tossed into the Labyrinth, the maze of the Double Axe, to be food for the Minotaur. Until Theseus of Athens volunteered, just like Caitlyn in "Hunger Games".
Khallow's complaint, then, has a moral to the story attached to it. Genetic engineering. You cross an omnivore (human) with a herbivore (bovine), and you should at least end up with a vegetarian, if not a vegan, right? But this is where the notion of "hubris", or overweening conceit comes in. We think that we can predict the consequences of our actions, like genetically engineering corn, of electing Trump. But in the end, what happens is as much a matter of divine justice as it is any intend of ours. And especially not the umbrage of the khallow at an aristarchus animal husbandry joke, if not he was so close, or actually in, Wyoming. Brokeback Mountain is just to the east, or south, of the Yellerstone, nay?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 28 2018, @10:16AM
Let me guess, the antidote for "baited breath" is a "bathed breath", yes?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday March 28 2018, @10:26AM
You should ask TMB what "baited breath" evokes to him.
Perhaps he'll answer when he's back from his fishing?
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 28 2018, @08:46PM (1 child)
Ah! Kind Midas, we knew him well!
His “golden touch”—such beneficence
To take the blame of Minos' folly!
(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Wednesday March 28 2018, @10:09PM
No one would ever confuse King Midas, who does mufflers, and Minos, Lord of Crete and Ruler from Knossos, Judge of the Underworld, would they? Oops.
(Interesting little known fact: Midas did in fact have a Midotaur, except it was only bronze instead of gold, and it lives on Wall St.)