New Method Finds Animal Drugs in Baby Food
The quantities are very small, but in milk powder and in meat-based baby food, residues of drugs given to livestock can be found. Researchers from the Univ. of Almería have developed a system to analyze these substances quickly and precisely.
Antibiotics or antiparasitic drugs are given to livestock in order to avoid illness, but they can remain later in food. Scientists from the Univ. of Almería have confirmed this, whilst checking new methodology to identify the minute quantities of these substances that remain in baby food preparations.
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Newborn kangaroos are so small they can fit on a teaspoon.
(Those are someone’s fingers!)
Ew. It looks like a rubber eraser, the ones in the shapes of pigs.
Aardvark baby takes its first steps at Antwerpen zoo - video
A baby aardvark was born in Antwerpen zoo in Belgium two weeks ago. The creature, also known as an earth pig, is characterised by a long nose and powerful feet that allows him to dig deep, long tunnels to look for ants and termites. Nuru, which means ‘light’ in Swahili, is only the 10th baby aardvark born in the zoo in more than 50 years
Fugly But Cute!
(via Aardvark baby takes its first steps at Antwerpen zoo - video | World news | guardian.co.uk)
Fugly but cute = morbid curiosity that you will immediately regret. Watch it anyway.
baby Malayan tapir
photo by Peter Budd
Tapirus indicus
Source: funkysafari
Aardvark baby takes its first steps at Antwerpen zoo - video
A baby aardvark was born in Antwerpen zoo in Belgium two weeks ago. The creature, also known as an earth pig, is characterised by a long nose and powerful feet that allows him to dig deep, long tunnels to look for ants and termites. Nuru, which means ‘light’ in Swahili, is only the 10th baby aardvark born in the zoo in more than 50 years
Fugly But Cute!
(via Aardvark baby takes its first steps at Antwerpen zoo - video | World news | guardian.co.uk)
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