When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Gestation crate - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestation_crate

   Gestation crates, used on modern pig-production facilities, commonly referred to as factory farms. A gestation crate, also known as a sow stall, is a metal enclosure in which a farmed sow used for breeding may be kept during pregnancy. [1] [2] [3] A standard crate measures 6.6 ft x 2.0 ft (2 m x 60 cm). [4] [5]

3. Guinea pig - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_pig

   The guinea pig or domestic guinea pig (Cavia porcellus), also known as the cavy or domestic cavy (/ ˈ k eɪ v i / KAY-vee), is a species of rodent belonging to the genus Cavia, family Caviidae. Breeders tend to use the name "cavy" for the animal, but "guinea pig" is more commonly used in scientific and laboratory contexts. [ 1 ]

4. Richard Buckminster Fuller - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Buckminster_Fuller

   Fuller held that unthinking use of obsolete scientific ideas detracts from and misleads intuition. Other neologisms collectively invented by the Fuller family, according to Allegra Fuller Snyder, are the terms "sunsight" and "sunclipse", replacing "sunrise" and "sunset" to overturn the geocentric bias of most pre- Copernican celestial mechanics .

5. The Big Knights - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Knights

   The exercise wheel in Sir Doris the Hamster’s cage develops an annoying squeak which Sir Boris and Sir Morris are unable to fix. So, they seek the advice of Professor von Proton, the finest mind in Borovia. The professor uses the Big Knights as guinea pigs to test his new time traveling machine, the Time Protonosphere, with disastrous ...

6. Animal husbandry - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_husbandry

   Prey animals, sheep, goats, pigs and cattle, were progressively domesticated early in the history of agriculture. [3] Pigs were domesticated in the Near East between 8,500 and 8000 BC, [4] sheep and goats in or near the Fertile Crescent about 8,500 BC, [5] and cattle from wild aurochs in the areas of modern Turkey and Pakistan around 8,500 BC. [6]

7. Montane guinea pig - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montane_Guinea_Pig

   The montane guinea pig is a medium-sized species, growing to a total length of 247 mm (9.7 in). Their colour varies in different parts of the range; in Peru, the dorsal fur is dark reddish-brown mixed with black, and the underparts are dark buffy-grey; in Chile, the dorsal surface is pale agouti brown with paler underparts; in Bolivia, the upper parts are agouti olive and the underparts creamy ...