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Feeling Green? Buy Paper Made Out of Poo

By Monica GarskeApr 22nd 2011 – 8:18AM
Alternative Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd.

Alternative Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd.

Finding your desk covered in animal dung doesn't have to be a bad thing. When it's in stationery form, at least. Whenever entrepreneur Michael Flancman talks about his business, there's usually an elephant in the room. That's because he runs the Great Elephant Poo Poo Paper Co., a unique, environmentally conscious...

Genetically Modified Cows Produce 'Human' Breast Milk [VIDEO]

Apr 4th 2011 – 4:20PM
AFP / Getty Images

AFP / Getty Images

This 'Sea Cow' Gives Milk

Feb 22nd 2011 – 4:03PM
Paul Kane, Getty Images

Paul Kane, Getty Images

One Australian artist is giving manatees some competition. For his latest "surreal sculpture," artist Andrew Baines is posing cows in the surf at Abbey Beach in Busselton, Australia. Baines worked with a group called the South West Dairy Farmers to train the bovines to stand in the ocean for periods as long as 10 minutes...

Drunk as a Skunk? 5 Most Famous Soused Animals

By Anna RothschildAug 31st 2010 – 10:10AM
Schalk van Zuydam, AP

Schalk van Zuydam, AP

(Aug. 31) -- A troop of baboons on a bender has been causing a ruckus in a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, and around the Web due to their unruly behavior. After feasting on the sauvignon blanc grapes fermenting in the sun in Cape Town's wine country every day for the past few weeks, the bacchanalian horde has destroyed...

Holy Cow! Cattle Embroiled in Violent Incidents

By Ben MuessigJul 29th 2010 – 1:10PM
Toby Talbot, AP

Toby Talbot, AP

(July 29) -- It's a bad time to be a cow. The often-docile farm animals known mainly for meat, milk and mooing have been involved in a number of violent incidents in recent days -- including several deadly confrontations. Reports of fatal encounters between "killer cows" and hikers in Switzerland have changed the...

Background on cows

Cattle (colloquially cows) are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.

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