Why do snakes shed their skin?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteALL animals shed their skin. It isn’t obvious in mammals such as humans as it is an on-going process that occurs throughout one’s lifetime in which dead cells are constantly discarded. Skin shedding is unique among reptiles as it occurs periodically. In the case of snakes, they shed a layer of skin in one continuous […]
De-horning cattle without pain
Reading Time: 2 minutesHEY, did you know that cattles have now been made hornless through genetic editing? In large scale farming for livestock, cattles live close to each other and as a result, injure one another using their horns. In an effort to cut ‘operational costs’ and make cattles easier to handle and prevent injuries, most farms force […]