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The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is investigating a pig farm near Timaru over whether it is using sow crates illegally.

The adult male Asian elephant was filmed by residents of Meng’a, Yunnan province, on March 24 careering around the town and causing damage, footage posted on social media site Weibo by the region’s Political and Legal Committee shows.

Fish are often difficult to identify with or feel for. They don’t have expressive faces and don’t seem to tell us much behaviorally. Nonetheless, Chino, a golden retriever who lived with Mary and Dan Heath in Medford, Oregon, and Falstaff, a 15-inch koi, had regular meetings for six years at the edge of the pond where Falstaff lived. Each day when Chino arrived, Falstaff swam to the surface, greeted him, and nibbled on Chino’s paws. Falstaff did this repeatedly as Chino stared down with a curious and puzzled look on her face. Their close friendship was extraordinary and charming. When the Heaths moved, they went as far as to build a new fishpond so that Falstaff could join them.

"The effect of this so-called farming method is well documented. How anyone can think it is a good idea is beyond me. Profit should never come before the welfare of animals and birds.

The data show there is a continual flow of Circumpolar Deep Water through the Siple Trough. Although this water often undergoes slight cooling or freshening as it approaches the continent, the data indicate there are frequent occasions when undiluted deep water up to 1.5°C—some of the warmest ever observed at an ice shelf front in Antarctica—reaches the western Getz Ice Shelf front.

We faced a dark, tunnel-like space lined by two sets of columns. At the far end, candlelight illuminated a black marble statue of a seated male figure. Its barrel chest was inlaid with gemstones, as were its eyes, which appeared to float, serenely, in the dark space, inducing a hypnotic effect, broken only when the man sitting next to me tugged my shirt. “Neminath,” he said, nodding toward the statue.

And a year-long study with the AHDB (Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board) found that because lactating sows are drinking more clean water, the piglets were around 0.5kg heavier at weaning.

Before weaning, piglets don’t need as much thought because the sow nurses them at frequent intervals. Once weaned, pigs must decide when and how much to feed themselves. Sows milk also provides both the water and nutrient components that a piglet requires, but after weaning they need to distinguish between thirst and hunger and how they are going to satisfy both.

Use of a simple “causal” pie chart is proving to be a helpful tool for controlling necrotic enteritis (NE), Joel L. Cline, DVM, a veterinarian with Wayne Farms, told Poultry Health Today.

Table 2: Effect of water quality and drinker type on growth performance and water disappearance in weanling pigs — Experiment 2

Though there are no Premier liquid coasters left in the world, the water coaster is far from gone. Mack Rides of Germany seems to have had more success with the concept — the SeaWorld chain’s three Journey to Atlantis water coasters, the first of which opened in 1998 (one year before BuzzSaw Falls) are still entertaining guests today.

Schmidtlein, who now focuses his efforts more on crappie and walleye, said one of the reasons why he personally hasn’t done as much catfishing in recent years is because of how strong the crappie population has become on Perry.