FAO Greji

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Not really Japan related but since it is so important, I thought it would be OK to start a thread on this topic: Most Beautiful Goat Competition

Some stunners in there!

[omae mona]

I took this one meself. Figured that one day I might get a free beer out of Greji in exchange for an introduction.

[FG Lurker]

OM, is that a pic of Chuck with horns?

[Mike Oxlong]

In other news...

[FG Lurker]

In other news...

RIP Rose.

[Iraira]

Time to pull out a few of Greji's ex-goatfriends pix for all to comment on....

[Mike Oxlong]

RIP Rose.

I hear the widower is making a play for a hot new gal pal...



Look at all the attentions she's getting...like a model at the Tokyo auto show!

[Mike Oxlong]

Spider Pig, meet Spider Goat!



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/1381960/%27Spider-goats%27-start-work-on-wonder-web.html

A HERD of goats containing spider genes is about to be milked for the ingredients of spider silk to mass-produce one of nature's most sought-after materials.

Scientists have for the first time spun synthetic spider silk fibres with properties approaching the real thing, paving the way for their use in artificial tendons, medical sutures, biodegradable fishing lines, soft body armour and a host of other applications.

Webster and Peter, genetically altered goats unveiled today by the Canadian company Nexia, are the founders of a GM herd whose offspring will produce spider silk protein in their milk that can be collected, purified and spun into the fibres. Females will begin mass-producing spider milk in the second quarter of this year for a variety of military and industrial uses.

Spider silk has long been admired by material scientists for its unique combination of toughness, lightness and biodegradability. Dragline silk, which comprises the radiating spokes of a spider web, is stronger than the synthetic fibre Kevlar, stretches better than nylon and, weight for weight, is five times stronger than steel.

These incredible qualities are the product of 400 million years of evolution. Now spider yarn has been spun by the US Army and the company Nexia Biotechnologies of Montreal, marking a milestone in efforts to ape arachnids.

The work "opens up a lot of things on the practical level and on a research level," said Dr Randy Lewis, a spider silk expert at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. Dr Jeffrey Turner, President of Nexia, said: "Mimicking spider silk properties has been the holy grail of material science and now we've been able to make useful fibres.

"It's incredible that a tiny animal found literally in your backyard can create such an amazing material by using only amino acids, the same building blocks used to make skin and hair."

Spider silk is a material science wonder, "a self-assembling, biodegradable, high-performance, nanofibre structure one-tenth the width of a human hair that can stop a bee travelling at 20 miles per hour without breaking. Spider silk has dwarfed man's achievements in material science to date."

Today, in the journal Science, the scientists describe details of the production of different dragline spider silk proteins. First, they turned cells from cows' lungs and baby hamster kidneys into silk protein "factories" by giving them genes from two different species of orb-weaving spiders whose dragline silks have been documented to be among the strongest.

The silk proteins from one of these species were then spun from a solution in water to produce water-insoluble fibres of the spider silk, which the company calls BioSteel. The researchers found that the spinning conditions used were adequate to produce fibres that were one third the strength of natural spider silk but still good enough for microsurgery, for instance...

[Iraira]

New old-fashioned drug makers: goats
A herd has been genetically engineered to make a human protein in their milk that can prevent dangerous blood clots. If the drug is approved by the FDA, the barn door could swing open.

They have four legs, fuzzy faces and udders full of milk.
To the uninitiated, they look like dairy goats. To GTC Biotherapeutics Inc., they're cutting-edge drug-making machines.

To Greji, those fuzzy faces and udders full of milk are ????
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-geneticmilk10-2009jan10,0,5031465.story

[Greji]

To Greji, those fuzzy faces and udders full of milk are ????
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-geneticmilk10-2009jan10,0,5031465.story

I got hard when I read that article.....

[IkemenTommy]

I got hard when I read that article.....

Those viagra pills finally kickin in, Grej?

[Greji]

Those viagra pills finally kickin in, Grej?

Got'em on IV now....

[This is a pen]

[Greji]

Now that's my kinda goat, just ram it on home. BTW was it Charles that didn't like the goat action?

[hundefar]

Police parade goat as robbery suspect

It was a shocking sight yesterday as men of the Kwara State Police Command paraded a goat as an armed robbery suspect.
The goat "suspect" is being detained over an alleged attempt to snatch a Mazda car. The mysterious goat, according to the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Tunde Mohammed, while briefing bewildered journalists at the Force headquarters, is an armed robber who attempted to snatch the said car, Wednesday night, and later transformed into the goat in a bid to escape arrest.

More here.

[Greji]

Police parade goat as robbery suspect



More here.

True believers abound!

[GuyJean]

Extinct ibex is resurrected by cloning



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4409958/Extinct-ibex-is-resurrected-by-cloning.html

The Pyrenean ibex, a form of wild mountain goat, was officially declared extinct in 2000 when the last-known animal of its kind was found dead in northern Spain.

Shortly before its death, scientists preserved skin samples of the goat, a subspecies of the Spanish ibex that live in mountain ranges across the country, in liquid nitrogen.

Using DNA taken from these skin samples, the scientists were able to replace the genetic material in eggs from domestic goats, to clone a female Pyrenean ibex, or bucardo as they are known. It is the first time an extinct animal has been cloned.

Sadly, the newborn ibex kid died shortly after birth due to physical defects in its lungs. Other cloned animals, including sheep, have been born with similar lung defects.

But the breakthrough has raised hopes that it will be possible to save endangered and newly extinct species by resurrecting them from frozen tissue...

There's hope for ibex sex, yet!

GJ

[Greji]

There's hope for ibex sex, yet!

GJ

I'm lost here. Whadda ya mean hope yet? I had a great time in the Ibis with a thong and spurs the other night. That's a member of the Ibix change right?

[IkemenTommy]

I'm lost here. Whadda ya mean hope yet? I had a great time in the Ibis with a thong and spurs the other night. That's a member of the Ibix change right?

Greji is the last of its kind endangered specie as far as I am concerned.

[Greji]

Greji is the last of its kind endangered specie as far as I am concerned.

No way. Cranky's older and more threatened with extinction. Well, possibly just for getting shot jumping out a back bedroom window.....

[Taro Toporific]

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The curious case of the beast on a library bookshelf
Asahi.com/ 2009/3/10TOYAMA--Once upon a time a stray creature--it looked like a cross between an antelope and a goat--wandered into a village library, surprised a group of patrons and in the ensuing hullabaloo, ended up on top of a midsize bookshelf.
That's a true story.
A fictionalized version of the tale starring the creature, a nihon kamoshika Japanese serow, will soon be published in picture-book form.
The story starts out: "One day, Kamo, a nihon kamoshika, learns that a birthday party for a local library is being held." It visits the library, which has just marked the 10th year of its founding. "When Kamo stood at the entrance, the door slid open automatically. He walked into the building." ...more...

[Greji]

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Nice looking kid!

[Taro Toporific]

March 15, 2009 - AP Photo - Daylife
A cow lookalike billy goat named "Ushika" is fed at Yume Bokujyo, or Dream stock farm, in Narita, east of Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, March 15, 2009. The name of the three-month old goat is translated from the Japanese "Are you a cow? "

[Mike Oxlong]

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[Taro Toporific]

[Greji]

[Mike Oxlong]

Greji may be the incarnation of baphomet...or perhaps Pan, in eternal pursuit of Pitys.

[IkemenTommy]

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Goats, sheep.. Greji wouldn't mind.

[Greji]

Goats, sheep.. Greji wouldn't mind.

Nice flick, but I do my best work in the dark....

[IkemenTommy]

Here is Greji's Goat of the Day