3/7/2003: Mini bull!

Undertoad · 03-07-2003, 12:45 PM

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.

03-07-2003, 12:45 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	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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