A picture is a fact. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Thursday, March 3. 2005
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I wonder how they do preg testing.
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Craig
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2005-03-03 07:34
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Messing with Mother Nature is messy.
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moos
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2005-03-03 11:02
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They do not tranqulize the elephant to get the semen. For starters the tranquilizer used to sedate such a large animal is very expensive (somewhere in the $200 range per shot and another $150 for the drug to revive the creature), also tranquilizing elephants puts enormous stress on their bodies, they can only be unconscious on the ground for an hour before their own weight can crush their bones, and finally male bull elephants who are mature enough to enter musk will freely present their penis for collection, making the job of gathering a specimen extremely simple, provided you have 2 hands and something to hold roughly 2 gallons of viscous liquid (only about 2 cups of which is semenial).
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Trent
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2005-07-01 05:22
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I actually saw how they do elephant semen collection on a nature show once; it is NOT like the way they do it with cattle. Instead, they use appropriately placed electrodes on a tranquilized (!!) elephant.
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DMerriman
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2005-03-03 21:04
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I think that is more than I wanted to know!
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bonnie
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2005-03-04 06:48
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Aw, now, c'mon! I didn't go into anywhere near the detail I could have!
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DMerriman
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2005-03-04 08:55
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Thank you. Truthfully, the whole AI deal is a little graphic for me......I guess I don't even care to watch the natural process take place. It does amuse me that my grand daughter (age 10)read the bull clonning article in the Gazette a while back, understood it, explained it to me as we were going down the road and then told me about helping (I assume watching) when her gilt was AI ed.
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bonnie
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2005-03-05 13:39
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