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Old 03-07-2003, 12:45 PM   #1
Undertoad
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3/7/2003: Mini bull!



Happy Friday to Sperlock for suggesting this for a Friday image. It's from this Miniature Bull web site.

And no, it's not photoshopping this time -- I'm nearly certain!

Not far from where I grew up there was a miniature horse farm. I mentioned this before but one of my science teachers used the mini horses as an example in a class. He was teaching us genetics, and pointed out that while a lot of people focus on genetic mutation as where evolution gets kicked off, we really have a lot of genetic variation built into us right now.

And enough genetic variation in bulls and horses that, if you really wanted to, you could produce tiny ones in a few generations.

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